On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:43:32PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: > > > Put another way, Oracle skills may be more marketable, but paying for the > > right licenses & hardware to learn Oracle may be unfeasible for most. > > They used to do a free hobbyist/evaluation licence. Probably still do.
I'm sure this is still true, but the hardware is relevant as well. I've put copies of Pg on pretty old equipment & it ran tolerably well -- good enough to put sample databases in, write code against it, etc. I've tried putting the demo version of Oracle on somewhat better hardware (sorry, it's been a while & I forget all specs) and, aside from the fact that setting everything up was much more of a pain, the strain on the machine was much more noticeable than when running Pg, subjectively speaking, to the extent that I never bothered using it much. Then again, working past that ramp-up may be the whole point... -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q: What is orange and goes "click, click?" A: A ball point carrot.
