DA Morgan wrote:
> Mladen Gogala wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:42:09 -0700, DA Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> If nothing elsee, the implementation of RAC everywhere, will force
>>> a lot of companies selling junk to clean up their schemas and their
>>> code.
>>
>> Or, to switch to another database. Personally, I am studying
>> PostgreSQL as I believe that it will present a serious challenge to
>> Oracle very soon.
>
> Not to start a religious war here but the feature set of all of the
> open source RDBMS products makes them only suitable for the kinds of
> projects one might reasonably do in MS Access. For example there isn't
> a single enterprise application that runs on PostgreSQL and my
> personal gold standard, dice.com, currently show 17,535 Oracle jobs
> and only 211 PostgreSQL jobs. If the point is to pay the mortgage you
> might have better odds forming a rock band.
Read again.
Mladen isn't saying _he_ will switch to another dbms, just _adding_ another
one to his repertoire.
I don't see how that can be a bad idea.
There will be some companies moving from Oracle to PostgreSQL, others will
start with PostgreSQL and afterwards maybe will come to the conclusion they
need Oracle (or DB2 or whatever). In both cases they might have a need for
someone with skills in both databases.
Regarding your rather condescending comparison to MS Access, have a look at:
http://www.enterprisedb.com/news_events/press_releases/04_23_07.do
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Jeroen
Received on Sat Apr 28 2007 - 18:10:30 CDT
