Re: Any Oracle 11g for Solaris x86?

From: John D Groenveld <groenvel_at_cse.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:39:28 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <g3dujg$17hq$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu>


In article <485a068f$0$1351$834e42db_at_reader.greatnowhere.com>, Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>Unfortunately, those databases are toys, compared to Oracle RDBMS.
>Postgres, the better of the two, has diagnostic and tuning capabilities
>that match Oracle 6. No optimizer hints, no event interface, no playing
>with statistics. Those databases still have many miles to go to get to
>the level of Oracle8. Standby databases, asynchronous replication, cluster
>databases or gateways to other DB systems are still objects of desire,
>rather then reality.

Fortunately for customers, many of Oracle's leading features aren't crucial to their projects so they can use IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and now Sun's offerings instead.

John
groenveld_at_acm.org Received on Thu Jun 19 2008 - 10:39:28 CDT

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