Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:54:12 +0100 From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle, Message-ID: <3012.989574852@thrush.ravenbrook.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> of "Fri, 11 May 2001 09:56:35 BST." <E14y8ix-000JEA-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
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This flamage war is most inappropriate here. As you may recall, this started out with the following question: At 2001-05-09 00:31:30+0000, cornwall@intelos.net wrote: > Is there any way that Oracle will work on FreeBSD? I have version > 4.2 Stable FreeBSD and would like to install a reliable and stable > database package for personal and production usage. This is a question about Oracle. The correct answer is something like this: "Yes. See <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/commercial.html#ORACLE-SUPPORT>" We are all agreed that Oracle does some things which MySQL does not. Maybe cornwall@intelos.net needs those things. He wasn't asking about MySQL. So can we please drop the subject now? Sheesh. Nick B At 2001-05-11 08:56:35+0000, Pete French writes: > > Goody, an argument! > > 3 : something for a child to play with > > If you accept that children often play with things that are highly > useful to adults then theres no argument... > > > Now your cooking! MySQL is perfect for its niche. This is what = > > everybody > > has been saying. Yet it is not for all niches, as you have been = > > agreeing. > > So, again, what is the argument? > > The argeument is that whether it's niche is merely something for children > to play with. Its fairly obvious that it isnt - there are many non > trivial applications for which transaction support isnt necessary - so I > think you are just using the word to annoy people and start an argument. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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