Odd question...
A friend just asked me a question...he just mentioned that someone he knew
had just landed a job at AOL, working with a database that was described
as being *bigger* then Oracle, with the substring "red" in the name...and
earning something like $150+K US...
Anyone have any ideas?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
A friend just asked me a question...he just mentioned that someone he knew
had just landed a job at AOL, working with a database that was described
as being *bigger* then Oracle, with the substring "red" in the name...and
earning something like $150+K US...
Last I heard, AOL was a hard-core Oracle shop. Brad Knowles has stated
publicly that they use a big RDBMS as the back-end for their mail system
(and having helped build a mail system for 1m customers, I believe it);
I think that he even mentioned Oracle by name, and I know that Oracle
brags about them.
They might have a special build of Oracle to deal with their very high-end
requirements, or maybe they have something else entirely. I suspect the
former.
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Could be referring to Red Brick. I believe they provide a third party index
(and other tools or utilities) that is much faster than Oracles native
index.
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From: The Hermit Hacker [SMTP:scrappy@hub.org]
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To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: [HACKERS] Odd question...
A friend just asked me a question...he just mentioned that someone
he knew
had just landed a job at AOL, working with a database that was
described
as being *bigger* then Oracle, with the substring "red" in the
name...and
earning something like $150+K US...
Anyone have any ideas?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary:
scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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On 15-Mar-99 Michael Davis wrote:
Could be referring to Red Brick. I believe they provide a third party index
(and other tools or utilities) that is much faster than Oracles native
index.
I was just about to say the same thing. Informix bought Red Brick in
January ('99).
Vince.
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