On 2/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "The open source guys can't even begin to touch that," he adds.
Cheap flamebait. PostgreSQL has had support for multiple languages for stored procedures for years. MySQL has clustered failover solutions. Yet another article where a Microsoft partisan gets to make unsubstantiated claims. The claims that "enterprise" databases need outrageous 24x7 five-nines features is tiresome. Most could do better with FoxPro DBFs. The real problems with most enterprises are poor design, poor planning, poor implementation. Basic warm-standby and some form of transaction shipping would solve most client's problems. Unquestionably, there's the top 3% of clients who need super-high-performance databases, and those can be answered by top-tier solutions from any of the vendors: Oracle, MS, MySQL. You've seen the full-page ads where MS touts its big enterprise clients. They have a few. Oracle does the same. But who brags about Google's database? Nobody. Who brags about Yahoo! Finance's backend? MySQL. All the big vendors can cite these kinds of solutions. Imaging an automotive magazine where Ford was allowed to make unsubstantiated cheap shots at GM without a chance for GM to respond. They'd get their teeth kicked in. It's disappointing to see this kind of divisive talk in Steve Fox's editor's letter in InfoWorld; stand by for a whole batch of flaming letters next week. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
