[Taxacom] Database collection software - Open Source

[Derek Sikes]

There is a reason banks and airlines run their online databases with Oracle.

I don't think biodiversity data should be treated as less important.

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Erik Rijkers <er at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2015 22:07, Derek Sikes wrote:
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> > Here is a FAQs with information about Arctos,
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> > http://arctosdb.org/faq/
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> Oracle?
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> It seems dubious in this day and age to dump any money in the direction of
> Oracle for this sort of solution.  Yes, I know
> it's a great database but far too expensive. (btw, Mysql is also owned by
> Oracle.)
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> One would expect opensource solutions for this so central problem; isn't
> there such a opensource solution? (as a backend,
> PostgreSQL comes to mind)
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> Erik Rijkers
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