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Re: Database Licensing for Public Web Access
On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, William Kearns MHLP-CSC wrote:
> We thought about this issue when we set up our web pages.
> We went with Postgres95 (free to academic institutions) created
> at Berkeley. Slow, but it gets you there!
> We wrote our scripts in Perl.
>
> I agree, though, the price of oracle & others is too darned high.
We are using Postgres95 as well. I would say it's ease of use and the
fact that it's free more than make up for speed. We also have Oracle 7.1
and the Sapphire/Web gateway installed but I find myself filling most of our
needs with Postgres95 and perl scripts.
The Postgres95 community is also very active -- one could almost say it's
the "Linux of RDBMSs" :)
You can check out the Postgres95 page at:
http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres95/
cheers
--
wallace winfrey
sysadmin, nicar/ire
wally@nicar.org
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