[plug] setting up Linux server

[Paul Wilson]

> > > > OK Christian, I'll bite ......  what's a serious database?
> > >
> > > 1 Tb and up.
> >
> > Hmmm.  Then a number of Bank databases that't I've worked alongside
aren't
> > serious :-)
>
> They're "somewhat" serious. They're probably using software that can
> handle serious databases though.

True enough. In my experience they've almost universally used Oracle (except
for the IBM mainframe bigots ( :-) ) who have a fixation with DB2). My
experience of Oracle shows it to be heavyweight, but *extremely* capable.

Paul