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"Generic Poster" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, at the risk of flamebait, I would like to ask you to comment on
> how or why you think Oracle compares favorably with other db products,
> both commercial and free. We do web development, and were recently
> contacted by a client who wants us to design a db for him on the web,
> which would be like a data warehouse for, say, up to 100 little
> webstores. We do not know a tremendous amount about the db field,
> though we can make them just fine. We recommended at first MySQL, then
> decided on PostgreSQL. The question also came up whether a commercial
> db would be the answer. We felt that at less than 4 TB, open source
> would do well but that more than that, commercial might be the way to
> go.
>
> So, feel free to comment, knock the competition, point me to some
> webpages, whatever....
Received on Tue Jun 18 2002 - 01:49:55 CDT