Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:53:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Fuhrman <cfuhrman@tfcci.com> To: <colug@stones.wcbe.org>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Oracle DB Alternatives? (WAAAAAAY Off-topic) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105241028440.28461-100000@icestorm.tfcc.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy, Okay, this is WAAAAAY off-topic for this group but given the technical expertise here, I'd thought I'd ask anyway. The company I work for currently uses Oracle for one of it's platforms. Right now Oracle is running on relatively inexpensive hardware (Solaris x86) and for what it does it works. The problem is that we're starting to reach the performance limit of the db servers. What's the solution? Upgrade our boxes. We would absolutely LOVE to put our db engine on Sun Enterprise-class servers and we've even got an E450 we could put it on. The main problem is that Oracle licensing is, hmmm, a bit out of our budget. Like, way out our budget. Like, who-do-you-think-we-are-friggen-Boeing out of our budget. So we're now faced with the following rather unpleasant scenarios: 1) Pay Oracle a boat-load of money for every server we purchase 2) Switch Database Engines Does anyone have any experience with migrating from Oracle to another platform? We're presently looking at the following alternatives: * Informix * IBM DB2 * PostgreSQL (My boss keeps asking me about this) We're presently using Oracle's Advanced Replication feature for redundancy and this is something we'd like to have (although we could go with simple replication if we had to). Most of our applications are written in Perl/DBI which makes for easy porting and we've got some web servers that bang on the back-end. They're looking to make a decision in a couple of weeks so if anyone has ANY input, I'd love to hear it. - -- Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications cfuhrman@tfcci.com | Software Engineer (W) 614-442-1215 x271 | (F) 614-442-5662 | PGP/GPG Public Key Available on Request -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGPEnvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net iD8DBQE7DSBjtZTBgtmnGNERAnP0AKCPikUwru+vsDIWKcfQWB0YlBulAACg4N41 eUYfrYR7g1LuS0QeB6woBj4= =0VOv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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