We won!! Editor's Choice Award for Best Database Management System
at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The sorry runnerup was Oracle :)

Details to follow later.

Congrats to everyone.

                        - Thomas

Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:47:11 GMT
Tom Lockhart <lockhart@mythos.jpl.nasa.gov>
We won!

On 11-Aug-99 Tom Lockhart wrote:
> We won!! Editor's Choice Award for Best Database Management System
> at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The sorry runnerup was Oracle :)
> 
> Details to follow later.
> 
> Congrats to everyone.
> 
>                         - Thomas

Break out the Champagne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vince.
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Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:52:37 -0400 (EDT)
Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
RE: We won!
Tom Lockhart wrote:
> 
> We won!! Editor's Choice Award for Best Database Management System
> at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The sorry runnerup was Oracle :)

Nice!

But there is error @ 
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html

> it has a range of very advanced features such as r-tree indexing 
> for geographical data and concurrency control at a lower 
> granularity than common row-level locking. 
> The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases, 
                        ^^^^^^
> including Oracle, DB2, and Informix. 
            ^^^^^^
Oracle has MVCC!!!
As well as Interbase, Rdb(?)...

Vadim

Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:58:10 +0800
Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>
Re: We won!
At 10:58 12/08/99 +0800, Vadim Mikheev wrote:
>Tom Lockhart wrote:
>> 
>> We won!! Editor's Choice Award for Best Database Management System
>> at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The sorry runnerup was Oracle :)
>
>Nice!
>
>But there is error @ 
>http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html
>
>> it has a range of very advanced features such as r-tree indexing 
>> for geographical data and concurrency control at a lower 
>> granularity than common row-level locking. 
>> The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases, 
>                        ^^^^^^
>> including Oracle, DB2, and Informix. 
>            ^^^^^^
>Oracle has MVCC!!!
>As well as Interbase, Rdb(?)...
>

Yes, Rdb too...

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Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:25:45 +1000
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: We won!
Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> > The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases,
>                         ^^^^^^
> > including Oracle, DB2, and Informix.
>             ^^^^^^
> Oracle has MVCC!!!

Thats what it says :-) ie. Oracle, DB2, and Informix and Postgres have MVCC.

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Theo

Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:18:10 +0200
Theo Kramer <theo@flame.co.za>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: We won!
Theo Kramer wrote:
> 
> Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> > > The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases,
> >                         ^^^^^^
> > > including Oracle, DB2, and Informix.
> >             ^^^^^^
> > Oracle has MVCC!!!
> 
> Thats what it says :-) ie. Oracle, DB2, and Informix and Postgres have MVCC.

In that case, should it not be "multique" ;)

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Hannu

Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:44:16 +0300
Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: We won!
Theo Kramer wrote:
> 
> Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> > > The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases,
> >                         ^^^^^^
> > > including Oracle, DB2, and Informix.
> >             ^^^^^^
> > Oracle has MVCC!!!
> 
> Thats what it says :-) ie. Oracle, DB2, and Informix and Postgres have MVCC.

But, afaik, Informix hasn't MVCC! -:))

Vadim

Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:34:30 +0800
Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: We won!
Theo Kramer <theo@flame.co.za> writes:

> Thats what it says :-) ie. Oracle, DB2, and Informix and Postgres have MVCC.

OK, I get it.  They wrote "unique among" when they meant "unique to".
That changes the meaning of the sentence radically...

-tih
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13 Aug 1999 08:22:56 +0200
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@Norway.EU.net>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: We won!
> Tom Lockhart wrote:
> > 
> > We won!! Editor's Choice Award for Best Database Management System
> > at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The sorry runnerup was Oracle :)
> 
> Nice!
> 
> But there is error @ 
> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html

We should link this to our web page.

> 
> > it has a range of very advanced features such as r-tree indexing 
> > for geographical data and concurrency control at a lower 
> > granularity than common row-level locking. 
> > The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases, 
>                         ^^^^^^
> > including Oracle, DB2, and Informix. 
>             ^^^^^^
> Oracle has MVCC!!!
> As well as Interbase, Rdb(?)...

Yes.  Good point.

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Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:21:21 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: We won!
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Tom Lockhart wrote:
> > > 
> > > We won!! Editor's Choice Award for Best Database Management System
> > > at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The sorry runnerup was Oracle :)
> > 
> > Nice!
> > 
> > But there is error @ 
> > http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html
> 
> We should link this to our web page.

Click on the logo.

Vince.
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Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:52:45 -0400 (EDT)
Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Re: We won!
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Theo Kramer wrote:

> Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> > > The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases,
> >                         ^^^^^^
> > > including Oracle, DB2, and Informix.
> >             ^^^^^^
> > Oracle has MVCC!!!
> 
> Thats what it says :-) ie. Oracle, DB2, and Informix and Postgres have MVCC.

Ummm, I read the above as "unique", as in nobody else has it,  not even
Oracle, DB2 and Informix .. *shrug*

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Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:27:24 -0300 (ADT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: We won!