Comments on: Migrating US Government applications from Oracle to MySQL http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/19/migrating-us-government-applications-from-oracle-to-mysql/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Callaghan http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/19/migrating-us-government-applications-from-oracle-to-mysql/#comment-15873 Mark Callaghan Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:48:24 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=856#comment-15873 Baron,
Do they really need to own copyright to sell it to the feds? My guess is that most government sales are for support.

The talk you went to sounded great.

]]> By: Web roundup « MySQLTalk.com http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/19/migrating-us-government-applications-from-oracle-to-mysql/#comment-15865 Web roundup « MySQLTalk.com Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:04:44 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=856#comment-15865 [...] to learn (via Baron) that there’s a MySQL Federal Migration Bootcamp. Good idea. I hope to soon see a [...]

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/19/migrating-us-government-applications-from-oracle-to-mysql/#comment-15862 Xaprb Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:14:27 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=856#comment-15862 Sun didn’t put a billion dollars into PostgreSQL :-) And since they don’t “own” it (e.g. they don’t have any dual-licensing rights) I think their sales prospects with it do not look as good.

This was definitely a MySQL event. I agree with you, it may make a lot more sense to migrate to a more similar DB server if you’re going to go open-source. But this was about how to migrate to MySQL and there was nary a mention of anything else.

]]> By: Joseph Scott http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/19/migrating-us-government-applications-from-oracle-to-mysql/#comment-15861 Joseph Scott Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:06:52 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=856#comment-15861 In my admittedly limited experience I’ve found people who are familiar with Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, DB2 (which are the general dominant DBs in government, university, etc) have a much easier time moving to PostgreSQL than MySQL. I think is because PostgreSQL has a similar module as DB when compared to commercial DB list. It maps to their previous experience more than MySQL does.

Since Sun was also baking PostgreSQL, I wonder if there was any mention of it there. Or was MySQL the only one mentioned? When Sun purchased MySQL I think everyone pretty much figured that PostgreSQL was going to get the boot eventually (or at least become the neglected step child).

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