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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Milk who wrote (1525)	5/7/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

The Practical Manager's Guide to Linux There's some discussion of database products in number 3 of Linux weaknesses. osopinion.com The most glaring weakness in the Linux story was the complete absence of strong database products. The only database products available were free ones like mySQL and PostgreSQL. (These have their advantages, of course. The mySQL DBMS is one of the smallest and fastest of its kind, but lacks features like transactions with rollback, which are essential for all but the simplest applications. PostgreSQL is an object-relational DBMS (ORDBMS) whose design underlay the commercial Illustra ORDBMS, which in turn was later incorporated into Informix. It allows for inheritance of tables, storing of programming logic within database columns and is, in general, a very good multimedia database. However, it is not as high-performance or as widely tested as the commercial databases such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix or DB2.) But then, late last year, all the database vendors jumped on board the Linux bandwagon. By July 1999, all the major databases, with the unsurprising exception of Microsoft SQLServer, are expected to be available on Linux, with varying support and fee options. References: mySQL website: mysql.com PostgreSQL website: postgresql.org Database vendors Oracle, Sybase, Informix, IBM support Linux: news.com Hardware vendors HP, SGI, Compaq, Dell and IBM support Linux: news.com Linux on IBM's RS/6000 and Netfinity servers: businessweek.com Linux on Sun's 64-bit UltraSparc servers: internetwk.com Big guns support Linux: zdnet.com Compaq expects Linux to popularise 64-bit Alpha chips: news.com. Sendmail home page: sendmail.org Apache home page: apache.org Netcraft's webserver marketshare survey: netcraft.com Squid home page: squid.nlanr.net Java-Linux project home page: blackdown.org Enhydra application server home page: enhydra.com SAP jumps on Linux bandwagon: news.com Tuxedo on Linux: fi.infn.it Computer Associates' Unicenter TNG for Linux: webserv.vnunet.com Doubt this helps. Thanks to slashdot.org