In article <35049A76.C0F8B5A@nconnect.net> you wrote:
: Same same. They've been trying to get me to 'look at' Developer 2000.
: They do have a SCO, and Solaris product, as well as AIX and HPUX, but no
: BSD/OS. They also said "no plans for it."
:
:> Personally, I use MySQL and it blows the doors off of many other
:> databases... in one case, we had a guy asking how many SPARC servers
:> we had running the thing (assuming Oracle or Sybase)... he was shocked
:> to learn it was on a single P5-166 with 64Mb RAM.
: I've used MySQL. It is very fast but doesn't support transactions. At
: least it didn't when I was using it. I currently use Velocis and
: PostgreSQL. Velocis seems slow compared to Postgres. PostgreSQL is
: fast, stable, and flexible, but ODBC support is marginal. My problem is
: that my customers don't get a warm fuzzy about a solution unless it has
: a brand name attached to it. The typical response is, "Free UNIX? Free
: RDMBS? What, are you nuts?" Can't seem to combat that one. Feel like
: a lemming on the Microsoft boat heading for the cliff. :-(
[CC'ed to PostgreSQL hacker list.]
Gee, I didn't think we were faster than Velocis. Hope you are planning
on moving to PostgreSQL 6.3. It is even better and faster.
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