[geeks] OpenSolaris ready for Production?

[Mark Benson]

On 4 Mar 2009, at 17:34, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Francois Dion wrote:
>>> Am I the only one around who *likes* Oracle?
>> I didn't know how to answer this the first time around, so I skipped,
>> but to answer your question, you are not alone. It is the best
>> database out there, and if not for the $$ question, there is no  
>> reason
>> to run anything else for a full fledged enterprise database. Still,
>> for even the smallest of company, Oracle Standard One is $5000 list.
>
> I don't know if it's the best database out there for all purposes.   
> IBM has DB2 and IMS (and Informix for that matter) and there's  
> Sybase (who's becoming a niche player more and more).

And MySQL is just a play-toy really. Suitable only for web designers  
and lightweight shopping list applications ;)

I use InnoDB a lot in MySQL so perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on  
Oracle ;)


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