"Oracle = Saturn IV." ?!???
Perhaps they claim to be. More like a shuttle with pretensions. Oracle was utterly unable to support our web site. And
thenthey 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:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
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" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> 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
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