Re: Oracle alternatives

Dick,
Oracle will always be my first love, but I have been dabbling with MySql on the side. Your article, plus a few of your other posts, have gotten me a bit curious about PostGres. What would be the best way to get started learned the specifics? I already have several linux boxen to play with. Got any book recommendations?

TIA ... Robyn

On 5/4/05, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> True, but no more than 2 cpu's and there are other restrictions.
> Besides $0 beats $5,000 every time.=20
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Drake [mailto:bdbafh_at_gmail.com]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:54 PM
> To: Goulet, Dick
> Cc: Oracle-L Freelists
> Subject: Re: Oracle alternatives
>
> On 5/4/05, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com> wrote:
> > For the benefit of those who may not be able to see the SearchOracle
> > site, sorry I was restricted to 600 words or less. Could have gone 10
> > times that without really trying.
> >=20
> > Now you want to add in a copy of
> > Oracle? Well keep your wallet out cause that's going to set you back
> > $15,000 to $40,000 depending on which edition you get Standard or
> > Enterprise. Of course there's more to licensing Oracle than that and
> I
> > could go on and on about that
>
> FUD.
> $5,000 list retail for Standard Edition One.
>
> next.
>
> Paul
>
> perhaps I need to add some ballast to this post so that it does not
> blow away into the overquoting area. I really had nothing else to add
> to the post and this filler adds nothing at all except enough text to
> avoid the lameness filter, without resorting to ASCII art.
> Actually, it should no longer be referred to as ASCII art as the
> charset used is most certainly no longer US7ASCII. That should be long
> enough.
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