Dick, Oracle will always be my first love, but I have been dabbling with MySql on the side. Your article, plus a few of your other posts, have gotten me a bit curious about PostGres. What would be the best way to get started learned the specifics? I already have several linux boxen to play with. Got any book recommendations? TIA ... Robyn On 5/4/05, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Paul, > > True, but no more than 2 cpu's and there are other restrictions. > Besides $0 beats $5,000 every time.=20 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Drake [mailto:bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx]=20 > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:54 PM > To: Goulet, Dick > Cc: Oracle-L Freelists > Subject: Re: Oracle alternatives > > On 5/4/05, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > For the benefit of those who may not be able to see the SearchOracle > > site, sorry I was restricted to 600 words or less. Could have gone 10 > > times that without really trying. > >=20 > > Now you want to add in a copy of > > Oracle? Well keep your wallet out cause that's going to set you back > > $15,000 to $40,000 depending on which edition you get Standard or > > Enterprise. Of course there's more to licensing Oracle than that and > I > > could go on and on about that > > FUD. > $5,000 list retail for Standard Edition One. > > next. > > Paul > > perhaps I need to add some ballast to this post so that it does not > blow away into the overquoting area. I really had nothing else to add > to the post and this filler adds nothing at all except enough text to > avoid the lameness filter, without resorting to ASCII art. > Actually, it should no longer be referred to as ASCII art as the > charset used is most certainly no longer US7ASCII. That should be long > enough. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l