Re: [ILUG] Drop in replacement for Ingres Database?

From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Fri 13 Sep 2002 - 20:25:40 IST

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Quoting Philip Reynolds (phil at domain redbrick.dcu.ie):

> Mind me asking why you're going for Oracle, unless you have a DAMN
> good reason to go with it, don't.
>
> Most people (read: 99%) won't use Oracles superior featureset over
> PostgreSQL, or don't need to.

In fact, if you honestly feel you need a proprietary SQL database backed
by a large company, for heaven's sake use DB2, rather than Oracle.

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