ZHello, The best argument for using postgresql in place of Oracle is that the latest Oracle has lots and lots of feutures which one normally do not need. It is expencive and is normally only required for large multi-national companies. hth Willem
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, ETI - Barry Irchad Kader wrote: > Hi! > > This message may be off topic and I apologize a lot if so. > > I would like to have your opinions about open source databases versus > commercial ones. I had a _serious_ debate with some of my colleagues > about open source in general but when I started to compare mysql to > oracle, they literally fired at me as if I had made a blasphemy... They > are stating that Oracle is above any comparison and that it is the must > in the universe of relational databases. > > Since, I am searching some objective informations in order to classify > these databases. I found (and was surprise to find) that the real > alternative to oracle were rather postgresql than mysql: when comparing > the features. > > But I didn't find any head to head comparison between open > source/commercial databases. > > Do you know any benchmark results that made this kind of comparison? > > Thanks a lot for any suggestion. > > And again, my apologizes if this is not the right place to ask such > questions. > > Best regards, > Kader. > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
