Re: Oracle Licensing Paper

The coms should be changed to orgs. Sorry!

  (FREE)
  www.postgresql.org (very good - has triggers and pl/sql aka pgplsql;   you can also create your own data types in 'C' and user perl to write   stored procedures. Nice!. Very reliable in my opinion.)

  www.sapdb.org
  www.mysql.org

Spring04-345u wrote:

> Hello everyone, I found an interesting article for those who have
> questions about Oracle licensing, from our good friends at appergy.com.
> It is very good. Competition is a good thing after all. Any tips, tricks
> and hints in dealing with Oracle are welcome.
>
> "Oracle is Putting the Support Screws to Customers: An Appergy Execution
> alert":
> http://www.appergy.com/portal/content/products/NOC110.012OracleisPuttingTheSupportScrewstoCustomersV1.0.pdf
>
>
> My opinion is:
> I would suggest what I did: I started deploying all midrange and lower
> projects using postgresql. At least, I get to make full use of my 4 CPU
> computer (for free) instead of buying a crippled computer just to stay
> compliant with Oracle licensing policies. :-)))
>
> Alternate SQL RDBMS:
>
> (FREE)
> www.postgresql.com (very good - has triggers and pl/sql aka pgplsql;
> you can also create your own data types in 'C' and user perl to write
> stored procedures. Nice!. Very reliable in my opinion.)
>
> www.sapdb.com
> www.mysql.com
>
> (PAY)
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/ (DB2)
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/ (MS SQLServer)
>
> Cheers!
>
Received on Sat Feb 28 2004 - 15:56:31 CST