Re: Open Source Oracle?

From: Glen A Stromquist <glen_stromquist_at_no_spam_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:04:40 GMT
Message-ID: <cSY1d.28621$KU5.27963@edtnps89>

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> Glen A Stromquist wrote:
>
>

>>I'm in the midst of designing a web page for someone I know with a Hotel
>>business, and I can see that in the not-to-distant future if it grows
>>much and they want online booking features etc.. it will need a database
>>of some sorts in the back end, so it'll be time to learn MYSQL or
>>something of the sort, anything but the detestable MSAccess.  An old
>>version of oracle would suffice quite nicely for what I have in mind,
>>but the dollars involved would make it out of the question.

>
>
> Precisely, Glen. That sentence "An old version of oracle would suffice for
> what I have in mind" is the essence of the matter. Now why should Oracle
> give that functionality to you for free? Because one day you will want a
> feature that only its latest and greatest products will provide -but by
> then, you're a hooked Oracle-phile.
>
> I've been spending a bit of time in the Suse newsgroup lately (as I think
> you might be aware!), and MySQL has a big mindshare there. I've even been
> tempted to have a look myself.
>
> If you believe that Microsoft is a fool to ignore the threat/challenge that
> Linux poses (as I do believe), then it would be equally foolish of Oracle
> to allow MySQL to reign unchallenged in the 'proper but cheap' database
> market.
>
> Of course it won't happen (I think I said that in my first post). But I
> honestly can't see why not, nor what Oracle has to lose in the matter.
>
> Regards
> HJR
Good points - not to long ago I chatted with a colleague (the oracle dba that used to have my job) and he was quite enthusiastic about the +'s of using MYSQL for quite a few things, mostly on the web back end type use's where people were quite willing to not have the ability to recover to the POF just for the $$ savings alone. Myself I currently have at least 2 sizeable databases that are no longer used for transactions but need to be kept around for query only purposes, these will be my first MYSQL (or perhaps Postgresql) projects if I ever get around to it...

Haven't been over to the SuSE NG in a bit, but I'm sure I'll see you there. Just installed 9.1 pro (no, I havent forgot about those cd's I mentioned to you awhile back, just cant get the cd1 copy to boot up!) and am more impressed with each version of SuSE for ease of installation and setup for things like local LAN connections, digital camera's etc.. Right now I'm waffling over installing 9i for "apples to apples" comparisons of cloned prod database's on W2K or go with 10G and play with it. I'm in the process of reading what I can about 10G on 9.1 to see what kind of "gotchas" I need to know about first.

Here's another wish for your list, how's about Oracle supporting their product on desktop versions of at least RH and SuSE? If they are pushing linux so much would it not make sense that the Linux desktop's out there connecting to all these Linux servers will *not* be running SLESx or RHES but a desktop version? The last course I took the instructor told the class that soon all classroom environment's were to be totally Linux in the near future, I'm assuming that there it'd be desktop version's running the clients, if not the database itself in this case.

cheers Received on Wed Sep 15 2004 - 10:04:40 CDT