Re: troll

"Buck Nuggets" <bucknuggets_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>But small companies, with small data requirements? They're generally
>fine on postgresql right now..

Firebird (ex Interbase), my favourite toy db, can quite happily run 300GB db's with 100's of concurrent users.

>And with every passing year - between Moore's Law, and the rapid
>evolution of these products we're going to see them absorb the smallest
>databases - until the only databases still using large commercial
>products will be the rare monsters.

>I suspect that this is one of the reasons that Oracle desperately needs
>to become an applications company.

A very cogent analysis, and one with which I agree.

People are starting to wake up and smell the coffee, for the *_vast_* majority of apps, one doesn't need the power/capabilities of an Oracle/DB2/SQL Server/<insert expensive db of choice>.

This IMHO is part of the reason that we're seeing M$oft releasing it's db engine for free for small apps, and the free db's are starting to nibble at the heels of the big boys. When every machine is 64 bit, the reasons for choosing a paid for db will really start to evaporate, and as you say, only the "monsters" of this world will run paid-for dbs.

Paul...

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