Re: MySQL vs. Oracle database

SAP official history is at http://www.sapdb.org/history.htm Amusingly, they have "blanked out" what SAPDB was originally called. Of personal interest to me is the Cincom connection in that I worked with their software for much of the 80's...

Kip Bryant

|Um, no, not really.

|SAPDB is Sybase, pure and simple.

|Jared

|On Thursday 18 April 2002 12:21, Gordon, Emery {PDBI~Palo Alto} wrote:
|> There is a new alternative. SAPDB is open source but supported by SAP. Whan
|> used outside of SAP applications it is free but charged when used inside of
|> SAP. The support is from a major software company and the features are much
|> closer to the Oracle feature set.
|>
|> Emery Gordon
|>
|> -----Original Message-----
|> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:32 PM
|> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|>
|>
|>
|>
|> -- "Weaver, Walt" <wweaver_at_rightnow.com>
|>
|> > I don't think you're wrong. MySQL gets dissed frequently on this list,
|> > but it's really a nice little product. IMHO it's much closer to Oracle
|> > than Access.
|> >
|> > It works well for us. Doesn't scale like Oracle, but works well.
|>
|> In some ways it scales better than Oracle. For load+query
|> (a.k.a., "warehouse") operations it can be faster than
|> Oracle because it doesn't get tangled up with rollbacks,
|> etc. On systms with many "instances" it also can be much
|> simpler to administer.
|>
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|> Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647
|> +1 800 762 1582
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