Re: NASA switches from Oracle to MySQL

From: Douglas Scott <Douglas.S.Scott_at_USAHQ.unitedspacealliance.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:03:07 -0600
Message-ID: <3A561A6B.9F7B54A8@USAHQ.unitedspacealliance.com>

I happen to work for a NASA contractor and I can tell you from personal experience that NASA uses just about every database that has ever been developed in one or another department. Also, getting NASA to standardize on any one database including Oracle (which they use extensively) would be like pulling teeth.

Douglas Scott

JoeB wrote:

> NASA switches from Oracle to MySQL.
>
> Software shift at NASA may herald similar switch by other government
> agencies.
> Are the days of number of ORACLE numbered?
> Plus, Oracle extends $1 million challenge to BEA users, but not Open
> Source Databases?
> Why?
>
> Read full story on http://www.computercontractor.net
Received on Fri Jan 05 2001 - 13:03:07 CST