FTA: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/19/migrating-us-government-applications-from-oracle-to-mysql/
" [...] Here are samples of the questions I heard: - Does MySQL provide encryption comparable to Oracle? - Can MySQL reach into Oracle to get legacy data? - Is there something comparable to Oracle Forms? - Can I embed MySQL into remote devices in the field? What license do I need to do that? - Can I store JPEG and TIFF images in MySQL? - Can I extend the stored procedure language to be PL/SQL compatible? - Does MySQL have multi-byte character set support? - What level of governance does MySQL have over third-party development? - How does MySQL incorporate features back from the community? - What is the best reliable source of information about differences between the community and enterprise versions of the server? - In terms of high availability, how does MySQL compare to Oracle RAC? - Can I do ETL of 400GB of data per hour into MySQL? - Does MySQL Enterprise have additional scalability over MySQL Community? - Are MySQL Migration tools free? What about for migration from Sybase? - Does MySQL not checksum its own data? - Is there any comparison to be drawn to migration from other opensource databases to MySQL? - Is there any way to store strings with trailing spaces in MySQL? - Is DDL replicated? - Are there any workarounds for the blocking nature of ALTER TABLE? What about in MySQL Cluster? - Is MySQL Cluster shared-everything or shared-nothing? - Oracle makes it tedious to keep up with patches. Is MySQL Enterprise easier? Can I get alerts about them? Are they all aggregated together? - I'm on the Community version and I have an Enterprise subscription. Do I have to upgrade to the Enterprise version of MySQL Server? - If I have a third-party SNMP monitoring tool, can MySQL Enterprise send SNMP traps to it? - Does MySQL Enterprise Gold include replication functionality? [...] "
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