Re: Choosing a right database

From: <luvisi_at_andru.sonoma.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 1999 10:30:19 -0700
Message-ID: <m2aerhdr2s.fsf@andru.sonoma.edu>

Tapan Trivedi <tapan.trivedi_at_abbnm.com> writes:
> I agree. We are into Power Management out here and it is vital to keep
> the substations etc up that we keep the databases up. We do have a

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> couple of proprietary databases but at a lot of places (in countries


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> like Mexico , Venezuela etc where the skills required for the
> proprietary databases are not available) we go with Oracle with

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> Replication. It works very well I must say unless you heard about a BIG


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> power outage in any of these countries.
>
> Tapan H Trivedi

this seems to imply that Oracle is not proprietary. did they release their source under a GPL compatible license?!? I would be very surprised (and elated) to find that they had...

andru
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