Re: Database market share 2004

Daniel, Just for the record, and not to take anything away from Capt. Pedantic, I did not write what you are responding to. Somebody else wrote it, please take a moment to go back and figure out who it was you are responding to, they might want to say something back. DA Morgan wrote: > Data Goob wrote: > >>> For applications that are mostly used during office hours by the >>> limited population of staff within a department, you don't get a lot >>> of value out of the difference in licensing costs between Firebird or >>> PostgreSQL and Oracle. > > > What planet do you reside on? > > For those of us in the US. > > If those apps involve any medical information you MUST comply with HIPAA. > > If those apps involve any financial information including projections, > assets, liabilities, inventories, etc. you MUST comply with Sarbanes > Oxley. > > If you have more than 0 employees you MUST comply with the regulations > published last Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission. > > Ignore any of the above you your attorney will be looking for a > retainer. Oh and that will be for criminal defense ... not civil > litigation if you attract the wrong kind of attention. > > Do you think you can comply with those laws with Firebird? > I can answer that for you. > How abot PostgreSQL? > Same answer. > You'd better be thinking Oracle, DB2, or Informix or you had better not > be lecturing others about their bad habits and criticizing others that > break the law. > > So yes ... if you are storing your mother's cookie recipies I would > think you'd be pretty safe in the open source databases to which you > refer.

Data Goob wrote: > Daniel, > > Just for the record, and not to take anything away from Capt. Pedantic, > I did not write what you are responding to. Somebody else wrote > it, please take a moment to go back and figure out who it was you are > responding to, they might want to say something back. > > DA Morgan wrote: > >> Data Goob wrote: I am in San Francisco this week at WWDC so my ability to do so is rather limited. If you think it is important I'd appreciate your making any corrections. I expect whoever actually posted it will, if interested, read the thread, recognize their work, and respond. Thanks. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)