On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:33:17PM -0500, gpar007 wrote:
> Before going really to our Oracle project some calls this included a 
> called to the developers of MYSQL. Our project was not that big but I 
> really thought it wise that we must have a support on the database side 
> we custom built the application and it needed some programming. I did 
> called MYSQL which at that time made a major contract with one on the 
> big stock brokeraging companies in the NYSE. So I asked them how much 
> will it cost for support it ever we wanted MYSQL support. Of course the 
> MYSQL is free but support will cost $40,000 per annum flat rate big or 
> small deployment. So I said I better talk to Oracle 20% per annum of the 
> original license purchase price. Pero nandiyan ang PLUG for free MYSQL 
> support which I can not tell my boss.

Not to pick this scab again, but MySQL is not a replacement for a real
database product.  Check into PostgreSQL, and see what commercial
support you can get for it.  Last I looked, RedHat was selling it at
RedHat Database, or something like that, so commercial support is
available.

Michael
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