[geeks] OpenSolaris ready for Production?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 11:34:36 CST 2009


Francois Dion wrote:
>> Am I the only one around who *likes* Oracle?
> 
> I didn't know how to answer this the first time around, so I skipped,
> but to answer your question, you are not alone. It is the best
> database out there, and if not for the $$ question, there is no reason
> to run anything else for a full fledged enterprise database. Still,
> for even the smallest of company, Oracle Standard One is $5000 list.

I don't know if it's the best database out there for all purposes.  IBM 
has DB2 and IMS (and Informix for that matter) and there's Sybase (who's 
becoming a niche player more and more).

Peace...  Sridhar



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