[ale] On Databases...

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Stuffed Crust [mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:13 AM
>
>> Seriously, though, I think that you could make a successful
>> argument that since PostgreSQL will host on a Linux server,
>> and since there would then be *no* client access licenses
>> required for either accessing the host server *or* the DB
>> server, that the programmer could then command at *least*
>> as much, if not *more* in actual labor fees as compared to
>> Oracle, DB2, etc.

> Unfortunately, as good as postgresql is, it's relatively
> slow..

Huh...  When's the last time you looked at it?  It seems pretty zippy to me.

> and more importantly, it lacks things like database
> replication

Really?  www.pgsql.com/press/PR_5.html begs to differ (and this was in
2000).

> and other high-availability features.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I love PostgreSQL.    But it has a ways to go before
> it enters the Oracle/DB2 league.

Maybe you should give it another look-see?

Charles


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