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Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

From: Ray Stell <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:27:20 -0400
Message-ID: <20060530212720.GD816@cns.vt.edu>


On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:52:30PM -0700, Kevin Closson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>By definition, we jump ship when MySQL or whatever delivers,
> >>>just as we dumped comercial Unixes/Unices/Unixen for linux
> >>>years ago.
>
> Did this really happen? Hmmm.

Not the collective we, by "we" here I meant my dept. I didn't say I wanted to do it or it was better, btw, it was just cheapert. I can probably get away with MySQL in the years to come and it will be cheaper. Those running Oracle Apps will not switch, right?

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