My point was that unless you were worried about tens of thousands of simultaneous connections, MySQL is a better choice in terms of costs. If you are worried about tens of thousands of connections, MS-SQL still isn't a good solution because it won't handle the load and it will cost even more money; one lot to convert to MS-SQL, another lot to convert to Oracle because Oracle can handle the load. The reason I brought Oracle up in the first place is because a properly tuned Oracle database will outperform everybody in high load conditions. Twenty five years of experience tends to give people a bit of an edge when designing databases ;)
John -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:49 PM To: John Griffin Cc: Yuri; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Marketing materials ?? On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:15:05AM -0400, John Griffin wrote: > Hi Yuri, > > Money talks. Point out that MySQL is an open source initiative and > can save them money. As for knowing another product, such as MS-SQL, > being a deciding factor; it really isn't an issue. All databases, at > their core functionality, are the same. The same rules of database > design apply to all databases. There is a SQL standard that all > databases conform to (to varying degrees). All backups, etc. still > need to done regardless of the database. In fact, the only real > differentiator that management should worry about is scalability. If > your management is worried about thousands of simultaneous requests > (i.e. > 25,000) than I would suggest you look at an Oracle solution. You lost me on that last part. The hardware required to make Oracle handle 25,000 connections efficiently is FAR more expensive than for MySQL. Money talks, right? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 43 days, processed 914,113,484 queries (242/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
