PostgreSQL really couldn't be consider too great a threat to Oracle.

Oracle is in a whole other league than PostgreSQL. Oracle is

principally owned by Larry Ellision, but even I have a tiny ownership

interest in Oracle, as Oracle is a publically traded Company traded over

NASDAQ (eg symbol: ORCL).

Regards,

LelandJ

Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote:

> There is no crystals ball for peering into the future, and some weight

> must be given to the fact the outlook expressed about MySQL in the

> article and links I provided, are coming from the point of view of

> members of the PostgreSQL community, which could be a little slanted.

>

> Still, the future of PostgreSQL looks bright to me, but I know Larry

> Ellison see PostgreSQL as more of a threat to Oracle, than even MySQL;

> because, the PostgreSQL community has been actively working on making

> Oracle databases easily convertible to PostgreSQL databases.

>

> You might look in the contrib directory of PostgreSQL to see if there

> are any scripts that could be use to help move VFP databases to

> PostgreSQL, but as Ted pointed out, you're likely to suffer some major

> headache regardless of any scripts found. You will need to unpack the

> PostgreSQL source code to get to the contrib directory, (eg script

> contributed from various sources to do various things).

>

> Regards,

>

> LelandJ

>

> Grigore Dolghin wrote:

>> I am sorry, but I highly doubt MySQL will go away in near future.

>>

>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM, KAM.covad

>> <a_gmail_noSpam@kenmcginnis.com> wrote:

>>> What we need is an easy migration to PostgreSQL from VFP. Unattended installation from CD and a replacement for INSERT INTO FROM NAME, GATHER, etc

>>>

>>> Then it would be easier to migrate to something like Python if necessary some day.

>>>

>>> *********************************

>>> Below is Joshua Drake's take on Oracle purchasing Sun:

>>> I see a large possibility of mass migration from MySQL by non web applications.

>>>

>>> The obvious choice is PostgreSQL because of the BSD license and the maturity of the software.

>>>

>>> In conclusion I expect that MySQL in two years likely won't exist except

>>> on the most tertiary level. Most new projects will be developed in

>>> either PostgreSQL, Firebird or one of the forks (MariaDB, Drizzle).

>>>

>>> http://planet.postgresql.org/

>>> http://tinyurl.com/c2tqug

>>> http://tinyurl.com/c2dwzq

>>>

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