Re: NASA switches from Oracle to MySQL

From: Mike Krolewski <mkrolewski_at_rii.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 19:57:08 GMT
Message-ID: <932kif$s7h$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

In article <3A54C4E8.483D2CB5_at_jagas.demon.co.uk>, joeb_at_jagas.demon.co.uk 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
>
>

Obviously a flame.

The article states only a single team has implemented a transition to mySQL. This is not all of NASA or any sort of change of policy.

Like several large public database publishing group, it appears this NASA group has decided to support the cheapest solution to allow the largest accessibility to its data. And presumably, the same group will return to using or directly supporting Oracle when the users complain that they do not want to convert from one database to another.

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Michael Krolewski
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