Re: Web Site ideal system: Oracle vs. Illustra and Sun vs. Silicon Graphics

Hugo Toledo, Jr. (hugo@mcs.net) wrote: : John Regep wrote: : > : > Aaron, : > : > 70% of all WEB sites that use a database use Illustra, : > what does that tell you? : John, : I'd really like to know the source of that statistic. It seems awfully : unlikely considering the history of data sources on the web. : Now, was the origin of this statistic actually referring to relational : database? Or, perhaps, commercial relational database? And, then, were : they SQL databases? : -- : Hugo Toledo, Jr. Author of "Oracle Networking" from Oracle Press : 312.951.8012 Oracle WebSystem - Oracle Mobile Agents : mailto:hugo@mcs.com Oracle Power Objects - Windows - Unix - C : http://www.mcs.com/~hugo/oracle.html CompuServe: 72700,1705 Source is Illustra . Database is sites that do not use stright HTML, wether its dynamic pages or inputing orders in to a 'database ' of some type (other than a flat file) I would infir(sp) that "database" does not include "any collection of data" but rather a commercially available DBMS. (Informix, oracle, sybase, visegenics, and the other OODBMS) I don't know what an "SQL dastabase" is, but the figure does include both Relational and Object databases. Please explain the following : unlikely considering the history of data sources on the web. -- John Regep, || _______ || ZenaComp, Incorporated Information Consultant || -----/ / || 17187 N.Laurel Park Dr. #351 jregep@zenacomp.com || / /______ || Livonia, Michigan 48152 1-(313)-464-3700 || -------- || FAX (313)-464-3730 http://www.zenacomp.com/~zenacomp