Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?
From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:36:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1098927344.46806_at_yasure>
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> I am still interested, which is why we are having this discussion.
> But rather than back a product because it has a particular brand,
> I prefer a more realistic discussion of experience.
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> Have you ever used Ingres ?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:36:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1098927344.46806_at_yasure>
michael newport wrote:
> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1098752226.378168@yasure>...
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>>michael newport wrote: >> >> >>>Daniel, >>> >>>what do you do at the University of Washington ? >>> >>>nothing to do with education ? >>> >>>Regards >>>Michael Newport >> >>Teach databases something that might have interested you >>once in your life.
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> I am still interested, which is why we are having this discussion.
> But rather than back a product because it has a particular brand,
> I prefer a more realistic discussion of experience.
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> Have you ever used Ingres ?
I don't "back" a product. I work routinely in multiple products. That I teach one relates to what the university's students want ... not what I do.
But no one wants to learn Ingres. It is a decaying corpse that CA has attempted to bury at sea. If you want to work with a real open-source database the clear choice is MySQL.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 03:36:43 CEST