Re: Ammunition - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Ammunition
Date
Msg-id 20030819183804.GB4120@libertyrms.info
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In response to Re: Ammunition  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
List pgsql-advocacy
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:28:31AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> Last I checked the only place that mysql is used was in the yahoo
> finance section, and it is used exclusively to power read only content.
> They do have plans to use it in this capacity in other areas, but for
> their heavy read/write stuff the use oracle.

According to a fellow I met from Yahoo who was discussing this, they
use neither MySQL nor Oracle for substantial bits of their system,
but instead a proprietarty, we-wrote-it-ourselves database system
that has qualities just right for their use patterns.

A

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