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MySQL and Oracle 10 both free

Oracle matched MySQL in price. It probably had to. The up front cost is Zero as in no bucks, nada and nothing. Larry makes money on the support costs and many businesses like paying that money so they do not have to rely totally on inhouse staff.

I think you can even arrange for Oracle to support MySQL.

The continued success of Oracle DB is tied to its ability to spawn threads on multicore machines and build query plans that give fast results. In otherwords the Artificial Intelegence that is built into the product.

Folks who are having trouble seeing Oracle as superior to MySQL probably are unaware that prepared statements bypass a lot of the parsing and analysis of a Statement in Oracle that slows it down. Prepared statments are often sold as a mechanism to stop denial of service attachs. But they also speed up Oracle by an order of magnitude. Amazon and F5 are Oracle for good reasons. Now that the company is done merging with PeopleSoft and reorganizing to be Oracle USA and Oracle, I suspect the company will be painted positively.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 05/25/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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