Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:08:17 +0200
Message-ID: <c8idt7$f56$1@news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>

Noons wrote:
> Galen Boyer wrote:
>

>> How many customers of Oracle do you know whom are willing to say
>> no to having support for their database that is in production?  I
>> would guess this is a small number, but you may have seen alot
>> different numbers.

>
>
>
> Heaps different, judging by the very large number of customers
> still in V7 and V8.0/8.1.x
> Most of them run third party turn-key app(s) and couldn't care
> less what Oracle version is or is not supported, provided the darn
> thing works without problems. Simple.
>

Just about to comment the same: lots of (semi-)governamental organisations here are still on 7.3, and quite happily so.

What's this "if it aint broke, let's fix it" nowadays?

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 09:08:17 CDT