Re: Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Florian G. Pflug
Subject Re: Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres?
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Msg-id 436549BD.3080108@phlo.org
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In response to Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres?  (Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com>)
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Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
 > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/xe/index.html
 > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5920796.html
 >
 > 'Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction
 > to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source
 > databases.'
 >
 > Your thoughts?
Hm..... so now I can choose between a crippled binary-only oracle
version with no support, and
free-as-in-speech-and-beer  postgresql with excellent support on the
mailing list?

I think I'll stay with postgresql ;-)

Just image you are running a production system on oracle 10g express,
and reach
the 4gb limit.... It's already bad enough that some versions of ms
exchange limit your
datafile to 16gb - I don't want my database to do the same..... thanks...

greetings, Florian Pflug


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