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Re: Why no Oracle, Sybase, Informix etc.

Bruce Momjian <root@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-03-10T03:45:12Z

In article <35049A76.C0F8B5A@nconnect.net> you wrote:
: Same same.  They've been trying to get me to 'look at' Developer 2000. 
: They do have a SCO, and Solaris product, as well as AIX and HPUX, but no
: BSD/OS.  They also said "no plans for it."
:  
:> Personally, I use MySQL and it blows the doors off of many other
:> databases... in one case, we had a guy asking how many SPARC servers
:> we had running the thing (assuming Oracle or Sybase)... he was shocked
:> to learn it was on a single P5-166 with 64Mb RAM.

: I've used MySQL.  It is very fast but doesn't support transactions. At
: least it didn't when I was using it.  I currently use Velocis and
: PostgreSQL.  Velocis seems slow compared to Postgres.  PostgreSQL is
: fast, stable, and flexible, but ODBC support is marginal.  My problem is
: that my customers don't get a warm fuzzy about a solution unless it has
: a brand name attached to it.  The typical response is, "Free UNIX?  Free
: RDMBS?  What, are you nuts?"  Can't seem to combat that one.  Feel like
: a lemming on the Microsoft boat heading for the cliff.  :-(

[CC'ed to PostgreSQL hacker list.]

Gee, I didn't think we were faster than Velocis.  Hope you are planning
on moving to PostgreSQL 6.3.  It is even better and faster.

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