Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?
From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:44:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1098927824.48530_at_yasure>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:44:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1098927824.48530_at_yasure>
michael newport wrote:
> I agree that CA sales and marketing were bad. But Ingres the product is not.
> CA also wasted time and money on speculative products like Jasmine and Opal.
> Linux / Apache / PHP have taken off because they are reliable and OpenSource.
> I predict the same for Ingres.
And exactly why doesn't your "critical" understanding of the marketplace indicate anything about MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, and all of the other open-source code bases? You are a religious zealot pushing neolithic technology likely because it is all you know.
There is not a chance in 1000 that it will ever have 1/2 the marketshare of MySQL which is the only serious open-source competitor to Oracle and DB2.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 03:44:42 CEST