FYI, both sites appear to be Firefox/firebird/firefengle friendly. About Sybase, they may be a little too late to the game, but alternatively it offers a M$ -> Linux pathway for current Sybase users. So I say anything that creates Linux opportunity and choice is a good thing. Personally, I think MySQL is winning the DB wars. With Postgres a close second. I wonder what Wal-Mart uses these days? They have a ***Monster*** DB and ***Monster*** transaction activity.
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"Sybase is releasing its new ASE Express Edition for free in hopes of attracting customers who will later upgrade to Sybase's ASE Small Business Edition.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,95856,00.html?nlid=LIN"
(Note: Sybase's web page is not konqueror friendly, it's amusing how it fails; computerworld's isn't great either but if you scroll down far enough you'll find the article.)
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On Tue, September 14, 2004 11:11 am, Brian Densmore said:
I wonder what Wal-Mart uses these days? They have a ***Monster*** DB and ***Monster*** transaction activity.
I usually hear "Oracle" (which does run on Linux) in conjunction with the really big databases like that.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Tue, September 14, 2004 11:11 am, Brian Densmore said:
I wonder what Wal-Mart uses these days? They have a ***Monster*** DB and ***Monster*** transaction activity.
Walmart uses Informix db. They're a huge client for us, and I know they have thousands and thousands of instances.
Matt
http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.asp
Wonder if Wallie World was surveyed? I'm sure they were.
PT
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Matt G Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:29 PM To: KCLUG Subject: Re: Computerworld: Sybase Offers Free Database For Linux
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Tue, September 14, 2004 11:11 am, Brian Densmore said:
I wonder what Wal-Mart uses these days? They have a ***Monster*** DB and ***Monster*** transaction activity.
Walmart uses Informix db. They're a huge client for us, and I know they have thousands and thousands of instances.
Matt
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It looks like voluntary survey. I notice the Sprint PCS data base is not there either, unless that's the "anonymous" entry.
BTW, Wal-Mart is also using DB2. It may be a migration from Informix to DB2, but I know that they have a huge DB2 shop.
My $.02, Jim
Paul Taylor wrote:
http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.asp
Wonder if Wallie World was surveyed? I'm sure they were.
PT
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Matt G Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:29 PM To: KCLUG Subject: Re: Computerworld: Sybase Offers Free Database For Linux
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Tue, September 14, 2004 11:11 am, Brian Densmore said:
I wonder what Wal-Mart uses these days? They have a ***Monster*** DB and ***Monster*** transaction activity.
Walmart uses Informix db. They're a huge client for us, and I know they have thousands and thousands of instances.
Matt
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On Wednesday 15 September 2004 04:29 am, Jim Herrmann wrote:
BTW, Wal-Mart is also using DB2. It may be a migration from Informix to DB2, but I know that they have a huge DB2 shop.
They may have more than one. eBay is in a continuous process of prototyping alternatives to most of their system components. (They're mostly MS and Oracle, with some Linux thrown in.)
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