>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Hubbs ">Jhubbs@niit.com> writes:
Jeff> Does anyone know if it would be possible to set up a Web
Jeff> site based on Slash (the source code for Slashdot -
Jeff> http://www.slashdot.org/code.shtml) using Oracle8 instead of
Jeff> MySQL? What kinds of issues would one likely face (besides
Jeff> deep pockets) if one tried?
IIRC, the Slash code is just using the perl DBI module to
access the backend DB. As long as the SQL that's being used is valid
to Oracle (i.e. not using any MySQL specific features) and the
DBD::Oracle module is installed and configured correctly it should
probably work fine.
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