To piggy back on what Steve said, I would add, where is the current
level of DB experience in the organization. If everyone is familiar w/
Sybase and you have a Sybase DBA then why would you use Oracle? The
point is unless your requirements are specialized, each DB has pluses
and minuses, you should concentrate on leveraging you current situation
by maximizing resources.
Corey Herbel
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Steve Howard wrote:
>
> It depends on everything from the size of the database(s) you plan to need
> on the backend of your web-site to the size of your budget, and what OS you
> will be using for your database server. There is no one right answer for
> this. Consider how critical your data is, what you can afford whether or not
> replication will be necessary (for reporting or to create a standby
> server).....you need to make a good determination of your needs before
> anyone can really give an intelligent recommendation of a DBMS.
>
> Steve Howard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Barry Jeapes
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 5:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Can you recomend a DBMS?
>
> Hi All,
>
> Im in the very early stages of developing an intranet website where I
> have scope to
> choose which DBMS software I want to install and use.
>
> Since this is a new area of web development for me I have little/no
> experience of which DBMS' are good and bad. Of course I could just try
> a few, but as always time scales dont allow me to mess around finding
> which are suitable / unsuitable from scratch.
> Any of you guys willing to recommend some software or even suggest some
> that arent up to much?
> Maybe there are some independant websites around that review DBMS'? I
> havnt found any.
>
> It will be installed onto a UNIX system (Solaris). The intranet is
> currently served by Apache.
>
> Your advice / help will be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Barry.
