[General] Oracle buys Sun!

[Majed B.]

Hey Burhan!

I didn't know there was a free version of Oracle DB. Are its features
as "rich" as MySQL's? Because if they're not, there's no point in
using Oracle's.

Also from what I've seen from Oracle DBs, is that they're memory hogs
and don't play well with low memory setups (think tiny development
box, Virtual Private Servers or virtualized systems [Linode]).

I agree with you on the demand issue of postgres; but the problem goes
further than just user demand, because now web applications are being
built for MySQL by default (wordpress) and you'd have to wait for a
long time to get a decent port to another DB.

So, maybe now that Oracle owns MySQL, web hosts will start offering
Postgres. And maybe not.
-- 
       Majed B.