Re: Oracle 10g RAC performance

From: Ana C. Dent <anacedent_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:21:30 GMT
Message-ID: <_FQYh.204066$115.112324@newsfe10.phx>

"The Boss" <usenet_at_No.Spam.Please.invalid> wrote in news:4633d466$0$326$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl:

> 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
>

Marketing hype vs. Market reality

Which enterprise application(s) support PostgreSQL?

HAND! Received on Sat Apr 28 2007 - 18:21:30 CDT