Re: IDS on a Mac?

#1 (**permalink**) 04-20-2008, 05:29 PM

Ian Michael Gumby wrote:
> Unfortunately not.
>
> Silly me, I seem to recall that Larry Ellison sits on Apples board. Or
> am I dating myself? ;-)
>
> A certain Apple exec once joked to me (again, many moons ago) that if
> there were a database port to Apple, it would probably be an Oracle
> port since Steve and Larry are such good friends.
>
> Having said that, there's this thing called "location based
> services". This is a very young industry and there's a lot of things
> that have been talked about, but if you get down to it, the logistics
> are a killer. (Meaning the concept looks good, but try to implement
> them and you're in a world of trouble.)
>
> I think that there's one DB that could work, and no, its not DB2 and
> no, its not Oracle.
> (I'll leave it to your imagination who's left.... ;-)

MySQL?

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