Re: I found the light

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

> What rock have you been hiding under. We have all been waiting
> for some brilliant person to guide us to a piece of garbage
> with limited capabilities so we could all save money and be in
> violation of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FACTA, and other legal and
> organizational security, stability, and scalability requirements.

I'm a wee bit confused by this bit about conforming to Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and FACTA.

Surely there are a myriad organisations out there that have to have good accountancy practices, and/or protect medical data and/or process credit cards, correct?

Not all of these organisations use Oracle - they might use Sybase, MS SQL Server or IBM DB2 or Informix - i.e. not Oracle.

What I would like to know is what is it, particularly, about Oracle that makes it compliant with these rules and regulations? I'm sure that an Oracle server has as much potential to be sloppily administered as a PostgreSQL one.

Are you basically saying that Oracle makes compliance *_easier_* than other solutions, but is far from the only solution - basically any db properly administered could do the job?

Paul...

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