Lost jobs due to open source

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at canonical.com
Wed Aug 24 02:55:14 CDT 2005


* John 

| MySQL and Postgresql are fine for lots of applications, but you'll not
| find people running banks or airlines on them. For some things,
| nothing can beat a decent zBox with z/OS and all the stuff that goes
| with it.

The registrar for .org is running their whole system on Postgres,
fwiw.  It's not a bank or an airline, but still quite a sizeable
system.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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