From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 24 10:59:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.tfcc.com (tfcci.com [204.210.226.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 832D537B424 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 10:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfuhrman@tfcci.com) Received: (from mail@localhost) by proxy.tfcc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA19892; Thu, 24 May 2001 13:59:02 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: proxy.tfcc.com: mail set sender to using -f Received: from icestorm.tfcc.com(192.168.4.115) by proxy.tfcc.com via smap (V2.1/2.1a) id xma019881; Thu, 24 May 01 13:58:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:58:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Fuhrman X-X-Sender: To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Subject: Re: Oracle DB Alternatives? (WAAAAAAY Off-topic) In-Reply-To: <20010524104652X.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: Organization: 21st Century Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm actually trying to push PostgreSQL a little bit. A while ago, I developed a GIS-type system that displayed interactive maps. The backend I used was PostgreSQL since it had nice support for Geometric data types and functions. Pity we never sold it ... (GIS data is too blasted expensive). I'll look into Interbase when I get the chance. On Thu, 24 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > You should definitely check out PostgresSQL - it's a very robust and > featureful database. I don't know much about Borland's Interbase, > but that's also been freely released and is in the ports collection. > At least nobody could say that one wasn't commercial quality. > > - Jordan > -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message