On 09/03/2010 10:43 AM, Tom Perrine wrote: > Luke S Crawford wrote: >> Tom Perrine<[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On a related topic, who here uses GoDaddy? Vote for better working >>> conditions for our profession by supporting >>> companies that offer better working environments. >> >> So you boycot Oracle? while I have no personal experience, they also >> have a horrible reputation. > Actually, yes I would, if possible. But for other reasons that are even more > understandable to the "business". Their > working conditions are just the icing on a very bad cake. > > Oracle DB software is too expensive, their sales people are often thugs, > their software quality is lacking, their track > record on security issues is well known and in general, they are a pain to > deal with. Those have all been problems > since well before the Sun acquisition; it's not a new phenomena. > > We have a few ex-Oracle people around, so we know the working conditions. > > Our developers are making big pushes into mySQL where possible, and even > re-architecting middleware so that someday we > won't need Oracle RAC. They are looking at non-SQL databases as well. > Anything but Oracle.
So you're transitioning from one Oracle software package to another? Wouldn't PostgreSQL or similar be a better choice if you're wanting to take your business away from Oracle? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
