Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1098928130.887686_at_yasure>...
> michael newport wrote:
>
> >>Linux, Apache and PHP are succesful because there is a strong developer
> >>and user community. Ingres doesn't have this, and making something
> >>OpenSource doesn't cause this community to automatically build.
> >
> >
> > Linux, Apache and PHP did not start off successful. They grew.
> >
> > Ingres has existed for a long time, the base IS there
> > comp.databases.ingres
>
> The "base" is database developers not people that write kernel code in
> C. They will all die of old age before they figure out how to give the
> Ingres kernel capabilities that were in Oracle 8i.
>
> >>Linux in particular benefited from the focus companies like Oracle, IBM
> >>and others placed on it. The same level of focus is unlikely to happen
> >>for Ingres.
> >
> >
> > Companies focus on Linux because it is free. A huge advantage.
>
> Nonsense. Absolute ignorant nonsense. I consult for a division of The
> Boeing company. The cost of an operating system compared to the total
> cost of an application is so small as to be invisible. Do you really
> think we are going to build a $15,000,000 system and worry about the
> lousy few hundred or few thousand dollars for the O/S?
>
> We chose Linux because it gave us better performance, in lab tests with
> our application than did Win2K, WinXP, Solaris 2.9 and HP/UX 11i.

and the reason that Linux exists is that it answers a market need ! people are fed up of paying licence fee's for bloatware.

and as you say yourself a free product can give better performance than its expensively licenced rivals !! Received on Sat Oct 30 2004 - 16:37:15 CEST