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 -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
