BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hadron wrote:
>
>> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oracle users go ga-ga for open source, including MySQL
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | It's great to be king (aka "Oracle"), but apparently the peasants are
>>>> | secretly in revolt. According to a survey of the Independent Oracle
>>>> | Users Group (IOUG) [PDF], open source adoption is rampant within the
>>>> | rank-and-file of Oracle users...including widespread adoption of
>>>> | MySQL.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
> http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9802484-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
>>>>
>>>
>>> That is to be expected and was already happening, the main wins for MySQL
>>> for a long time were those databases that you could, at last, take off a
>>> platform that was much more costly than the database deserved.
>>>
>>> There are many a database that you would once have put onto Oracle,
>>> because of the capabilities etc. But were in fact very much an overkill.
>>> Like keeping an Elephant for cracking open your walnuts.
>>>
>>> There are better tools for those smaller databases now, and just as
>>> reliable. That doesn't mean the databases are small in importance, only
>>> small in the sense that Oracle is too big a platform for them.
>>
>> Stop talking rubbish. There have been other options such as BTrieve for
>> donkeys years. mySQL has been playing catchup for years because it
>> wanted to be a real RDBMS.
>>
>>>
>>> Oracle will still win when it comes to the larger works or those that
>>> require master/slave servers or those in mass communications situations.
>>
>> And how do you see DB2 doing?
>>
>
> I was talking about two particular database engines, those to do with the
> links in the original post. If you want me to discuss each of the other
> database engines then start it as a new thread.
It is a thread. Threads meander. As you should well know.
And it was YOU who was waffling on about "other tools".
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