[ale] On Databases...

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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:01:13AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> Seriously, though, I think that you could make a successful argument that
> since PostgreSQL will host on a Linux server, and since there would then be
> *no* client access licenses required for either accessing the host server
> *or* the DB server, that the programmer could then command at *least* as
> much, if not *more* in actual labor fees as compared to Oracle, DB2, etc.

Unfortunately, as good as postgresql is, it's relatively slow.. and more
importantly, it lacks things like database replication and other
high-availability features.

Don't get me wrong, I love PostgreSQL.    But it has a ways to go before
it enters the Oracle/DB2 league.

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