Re: [GENERAL] Bad news for Open Source databases, acording to survey

2001-07-12 Thread Guy Fraser
Blah Blah Blah Who cares if GMC or some other big company want to throw a huge amount of computer resources and money for support personnel and contracts! I have worked with Oracle. It is a pig on resources, a nightmare and daymare to administer. Like all proprietary software bug fixes and

Re: [GENERAL] Bad news for Open Source databases, acording to survey

2001-07-08 Thread Brent R. Matzelle
--- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is an article saying open source databases will not make major inroads into large businesses during the next five years: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/datbus/article/0,,11969_796851,00.html Those same weak arguments were used to discredit

Re: [GENERAL] Bad news for Open Source databases, acording to survey

2001-07-07 Thread Ryan Mahoney
This article appears to be a pretty weak opinion piece - the author has little understanding of PostgreSQL and the support infrastructure that exists. The article makes numerous references to mysql which is clearly the low end of the Open Source database market. Postgres is very close to