On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:15:05AM -0400, John Griffin wrote: > Hi Yuri, > > Money talks. Point out that MySQL is an open source initiative and > can save them money. As for knowing another product, such as MS-SQL, > being a deciding factor; it really isn't an issue. All databases, at > their core functionality, are the same. The same rules of database > design apply to all databases. There is a SQL standard that all > databases conform to (to varying degrees). All backups, etc. still > need to done regardless of the database. In fact, the only real > differentiator that management should worry about is scalability. If > your management is worried about thousands of simultaneous requests > (i.e. > 25,000) than I would suggest you look at an Oracle solution.
You lost me on that last part. The hardware required to make Oracle handle 25,000 connections efficiently is FAR more expensive than for MySQL. Money talks, right? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 43 days, processed 914,113,484 queries (242/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
