Daniel,
Just for the record, and not to take anything away from Capt. Pedantic,
I did not write what you are responding to. Somebody else wrote
it, please take a moment to go back and figure out who it was you are
responding to, they might want to say something back.
DA Morgan wrote:
> Data Goob wrote:
>
>>> For applications that are mostly used during office hours by the
>>> limited population of staff within a department, you don't get a lot
>>> of value out of the difference in licensing costs between Firebird or
>>> PostgreSQL and Oracle.
>
>
> What planet do you reside on?
>
> For those of us in the US.
>
> If those apps involve any medical information you MUST comply with HIPAA.
>
> If those apps involve any financial information including projections,
> assets, liabilities, inventories, etc. you MUST comply with Sarbanes
> Oxley.
>
> If you have more than 0 employees you MUST comply with the regulations
> published last Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission.
>
> Ignore any of the above you your attorney will be looking for a
> retainer. Oh and that will be for criminal defense ... not civil
> litigation if you attract the wrong kind of attention.
>
> Do you think you can comply with those laws with Firebird?
> I can answer that for you.
> How abot PostgreSQL?
> Same answer.
> You'd better be thinking Oracle, DB2, or Informix or you had better not
> be lecturing others about their bad habits and criticizing others that
> break the law.
>
> So yes ... if you are storing your mother's cookie recipies I would
> think you'd be pretty safe in the open source databases to which you
> refer.
Received on Tue Jun 07 2005 - 20:28:14 CDT
