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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.tools -> Re: NASA switches from Oracle to MySQL
The comments about 'any large agency seems to want to use every possible platform' (paraphrased) is definitely true. I walked into a project at a major telecommunications company and when I started off the O/S platforms included IBM MVS, IBM VM/SP, UNIX (5 different flavors), Teradata; DBMS included Informix, Oracle, DB2, VSAM (yes, I know), NOMAD, Teradata; front ending was being done in MS-Access, PowerBuilder, SQL Windows, VB; hardware included about 12 different server / mainframe configurations and about 10 different desktop configurations.
I don't know whether these people do this for the sheer spite of creating an environment that not even God would support, or what.
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