Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:14:46 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: Chris Fuhrman <cfuhrman@tfcci.com> Cc: colug@stones.wcbe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle DB Alternatives? (WAAAAAAY Off-topic) Message-ID: <3B0D3376.D9C5C6F1@pitt.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105241028440.28461-100000@icestorm.tfcc.com>
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I suggest you ask in the freebsd-database list, explaining better your
requirements. Also check the postgreSQL web site, as it also has good
links for other alternatives (Interbase, mySQL and others).
cheers,
Pedro.
Chris Fuhrman wrote:
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> 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.
>
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