Re: Choosing a right database

What I meant by proprietary was that we developed the entire databases including the dbengine and the DBMS in house. I would also agree that I would like the Oralce source code.

                                                Tapan

luvisi_at_andru.sonoma.edu wrote:
>
> 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
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > couple of proprietary databases but at a lot of places (in countries
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^
> > like Mexico , Venezuela etc where the skills required for the
> > proprietary databases are not available) we go with Oracle with
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Replication. It works very well I must say unless you heard about a BIG
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 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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Received on Tue Aug 24 1999 - 14:15:00 CDT