Re: Foreign key in Oracle Sql

From: -CELKO- <jcelko212_at_earthlink.net>
Date: 18 Jan 2005 18:13:35 -0800
Message-ID: <1106100815.184756.67370_at_c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

>> But if the question is put to the marketplace ... which is more
important ... portability or scalability and performance. Those that vote in dollars are not voting for portability. The day they do ... the vendors will start caring about it. <<

But they are voting for it. Portability is one of the promises of Open Source. And just look at how scared of Open Source software the big guys are becoming. Microsoft's dirty tricks to keep LINUX out of government computing here and overseas, etc. are a testimonal. A few weeks ago, CMU published the bug rates for Windows versus LINUX -- about three orders of magnitude in favor of LINUX. Received on Wed Jan 19 2005 - 03:13:35 CET

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