Mladen,
"However, people are working on the global indexes and I expect to
have them before long. And that will mean trouble for the Redwood Shores."
We've seen the demise of VMS and HP-MPE as operating systems as well s
DEC and a pretty bashed up but not dead yet HP which I won't belittle as
they had issues of their own. But I don't think Oracle has totally
similar issues. Yes they are Platinum plated which sooner or later will
create it's own issues, but they do run on most operating systems out
there and just about any hardware. Last I looked, which has been some
time ago, PostgresSQL only ran on Windows and Linux. And there are a lot
more limitations that Oracle has mastered that PostgreSQL has not yet
started on. So although I do agree that Redwood Shores has some hard
times coming due to cost differences, but that time is looking pretty
far in the future as long as functionality, performance, and larger data
set improvements continue.
In a race the "leader" has the advantage that he has already crossed the
ground that those behind still have to cover.
Richard Goulet, MSgt USAF (ret)
