Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

> >>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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.

So you have never used Ingres.

I guess the OpenSource tide brought Ingres back to shore.

Why is the clear choice MySQL ? Received on Fri Oct 29 2004 - 11:58:07 CEST