[Linux-users] Data Base Opinion

[James McDonald]

Rick Sivernell wrote:
> all
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> I am in the planning stage of a new commercial product. It will be cross platform,
> Unix Linux and M$ludge. M$ludge creates the best money though.
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> The product is a Contact Manager program. I will need to use a standard db, with the ability to allow Oracle SQL Server, if they wish to waste money, or some other db. For my default
> db I have thought about Postgress, or something like sleepycat. What would others
> think about these or any other db types. It would be nice to have a sql statement to
> load, read or manipulate data. No flames,good reasoning please. I will be using the 
> wxWidgets for C++.
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I'd use csv :) Um yes there are commercial cross platform products but 
why pay for progress, db2, paradox or similar when postgres is available

How many concurrent users will be accessing the app? How many records in 
total?

wxWidgets rock...