"Oracle = Saturn IV." ?!??? Perhaps they claim to be. More like a shuttle with pretensions. Oracle was utterly unable to support our web site. And then they wanted a truely preposterous sum for their wretched software.
Informix, on the other hand, has performed like, well, like a Saturn [which, by the way, the US could not build again ... apparently they lost the plans]. But it also costs a fair bit o' pocket change. Now, maybe if we take a couple of Titan IIs and stack them on top of each other ... Greg Williamson DBA GlobeXplorer LLC -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 9/18/2003 10:30 PM To: scott.marlowe Cc: Steve Crawford; Scott Holmes; PgSQL General ML Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... Being honest and fair will win > hearts and minds, and when they need the Saturn 4 instead of the Estes > rocket, they'll remember who to come to. I like this analogy, though maybe you've overstretched. Perhaps: MySQL = Estes. Put in InnoDB, and you have a D engine ... but it's still a model rocket. Postgres = Titan II. Can boost LEO missions or small interplanetary probes. Never mind its ICBM heritage ;-) Oracle = Saturn IV. Can take you to the moon ... if you can afford the price tag. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
