Re: Oracle and Postgresql

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com>
Cc: "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Roberts, Jon" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com>, Blazej <bl(dot)oleszkiewicz(at)gmail(dot)com>, "0123 zyxw" <0123zyxw(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Kevin Hunter" <hunteke(at)earlham(dot)edu>, mailtoyahoo(at)gmail(dot)com, "Postgres General List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ron Mayer" <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Oracle and Postgresql
Date: 2008-09-15 19:58:44
Message-ID: dcc563d10809151258y2e399c0xa4f41f92098e3a74@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:53 PM, justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com> wrote:
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>
> 2. Security: Patches,
>
> When they get good and ready. There are outstanding security issues
> in Oracle that have been there for years.
>
>
> Isn't that all software out there??

No it's not. It is true of an aweful lot of commercial software, but
most open source packages fix SECURITY issues pretty quickly, usually
< 1 month. Witness apache, the linux kernel, postgresql and so on.

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