[ale] $1B for MySQL !!!

[Jeff Lightner]

Isn't MySQL GPL?  If so it can't "go away" can it?  Someone else can use
the OSS stuff and continue on even if there is a commercial version
can't they?

FYI:  I found out over the summer from a friend who does development at
the Weather Channel that not all their stuff is on MySQL - I think it is
just the web related stuff.   It sounded like the teams that do that and
the rest of the systems don't really interact much.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike
Harrison
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:26 AM
To: Michael B. Trausch
Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] $1B for MySQL !!!

> You forgot about PostgreSQL... :-)

vacuum analyze.

PostgreSQL is more of a real database engine ala Sybase, Oracle
etc.. than MySQL, and takes a little more time and thought to work with.
MySQL's power is it's simplicity for basic web-apps, it just happens
to (currently, did not always) scale really really well.

And PHP and MySQL just work so darn well together out of the box.
I know it'll work with PostgreSQL, and I should probably try it again.
Many moons ago I used Perl and PostgreSQL a lot, and it was "rocket 
science" getting them to talk to each other and Apache. Guess it just
left 
a bad taste in my mouth.

> to the other, especially for applications that do not use a database
> abstraction layer of one form or another, and simply call the database
> directly.

Which I really, REALLY should be doing more of. I normally hate 
abstraction layers, one more layer of code for things to break in
or troubleshoot, But it sure helps when the client says:
We're using PostgreSQL, or DB2 or..

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