Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:33:56 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr Subject: Re: I have question about Freebsd-database Message-ID: <200612220833.kBM8XuPj036566@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612211453260.17735@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: > Looks like a great option but it you analize closer, it doesnt provide a > native Oracle version. That's right, but Oracle is not the only option if you need a good database. For example, PostgreSQL (in its latest version) is quite a good competition. (And don't start talking about support: There are a lot of companies offering support for PostgreSQL and other free databases.) > You cann't hire support contract for FreeBSD, Well, I don't know if _you_ can ... ;-) But there are companies offering support contracts for FreeBSD. For example the company I'm working for (secnetix, see my signature below). You can hire me. ;-) > it doesnt provide any warranty, No operating system (including commercial products from Redmond) provide any warranty worth mentioning. Did you ever try returning a Windows license and get your money back because some piece of software didn't run as you expected it to? > so it is not a good option for core banking, > for example. We have large (and I mean large) customers from the banking business who use FreeBSD, among other things. And they do have support contracts (from us and other companies). > I think that Solaris 10 is quite a option nowadays. Well, Solaris 10 isn't bad, and for certain type of apps it's certainly an excellent solution. We don't recommend FreeBSD for _everything_, in fact (sometimes you have a massive box like an E10k/E15k a.k.a. StarFire/StarCat, and you can't run FreeBSD on such a machine). But FreeBSD machines and clusters thereof are preferable for quite a large number of uses. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200612220833.kBM8XuPj036566>