Re: PostgreSQL alternative to "Oracle Real Application

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

> > What (exact, if possible) version of Oracle?
>
> My guess would be 8, but I'm not positive.  I'm pretty sure they hadn't
> upgraded to 9 yet, and they may have been back as far as 7 - yes, I'm
> aware that's a pretty wide window.  Anyway, they were using an
> Oracle/Weblogic combo, and it didn't work as smoothly as they wanted it
> to :)
>
> Anyway, I know this discussion was on Oracle 9, but I just wanted to throw
> out that the vendors use hype more than reality, and the chances that they
> have something that is terribly better than what you could cook up at home
> is remote.  That's _why_ they don't publish the details.  If you knew the
> details, you wouldn't be nearly as excited.

Which feeds back to my earlier point that if the vendor won't setup a test
bench system for you to test on, be extra suspicious of their promises.