Re: Minimalist ORACLE Installation

From: mark tomlinson <marktoml_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:45:18 -0400
Message-ID: <q4Oqc.47$j04.65@news.oracle.com>

Sarah Tanembaum wrote:

> Some of my colleaque to look into the opensource database such as MySQL
> and/or PostgreSQL since they are easy to install and require virtually very
> little resources as compare to MS SQL*Server, Sybase, DB2, and especially
> Oracle. Is it true?

Do they install easier? True.
Less resources? True.

Same features? No.

Make youre decision based on what you need. Disk and RAM are relatively inexpensive compared to an enterprise RDBMS... Received on Wed May 19 2004 - 13:45:18 CDT