Re: Database market share 2004

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.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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damor..._at_x.washington.edu
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You know for someone who talks like they understand subjects it is
clear that you don't know much more than some of the buzzwords.

Are you a lawyer?  What law school did you graduate from?  What states
are you licensed to practice in?

Are there differences between publicly traded companies and not?  How
and where exactly do these differences start manifesting themselves?

Why don't you keep to butchering a subject like oracle and go back to
advising people about dropping the dba role?