Re: Death of the DBA

From: John Hurley <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:54:20 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <951f0c9e-a1ad-438a-815b-77688d98da19_at_j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>

On Aug 22, 10:34 am, Mark D Powell <Mark.Pow..._at_eds.com> wrote:

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> > A database must not give Larry less money, or through inaction, allow
> > money to be taken away from Larry.

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> LOL - In myopinion Larry has more than enough money.  He should
> remember what happens when you get too greedy

Well with Oracle getting approval to buy Sun looks like mysql ( whatever that is ) has been taken out of equation. Does Sun also own postgres ( whatever that is )?

You have to think that these other databases will be "kind of" supported/positioned to be used along the way so that customers eventually decide they should scale up into oracle eh? Received on Sat Aug 22 2009 - 10:54:20 CDT