RE: Oracle License for Training

It never hurts to diversify your skills. As everyone on this list will tell you MySQL is no where near on equal footing with Oracle. However, it is used in A LOT of small shops in the Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL combination. Keeping your options open and current is always a good idea.

Rodd Holman

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:04, Weiss, Rick wrote:
> A question for the DBA Gods on this list:
>
> Is it worth the time/effort to download MySQL and learn it? Is there going
> to be a viable (meaning $$) market for the product in the future? Or should
> I leave all the egg$ in the Oracle basket?
>
> Musing for fun and profit.
>
> Rick Weiss
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:34 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> MS SQL costing less than Oracle is only partly true.
>
> If you load up MS with the extras that constitute a std
> feature set on Oracle, Oracle is very competitive.
>
> Been lots of comparisons on that.
>
> Now PostgreSQL and MySQL, those *are* less expensize than
> MS SQL and Oracle. :)
>
> Jared
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