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?


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