On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:10 +0200, Geoff Galitz wrote: > Maybe this will answer your question in regards to database choice (directly > from the wiki FAQ): > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Spacewalk Architecture > Why do you use Oracle? Any plans for supporting other databases? > > Originally the Spacewalk code base was used as a hosted application and > Oracle was a good choice for a hosted application in 2001. Over the years > open source databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL have improved > tremendously in terms of stability, speed, and scalability. We have not had > the resources allocated in the past to add support for an open source > database but want to do so soon. > And I expect PostgreSQL and MySQL will be options very very soon... :-) Erik