Re: Sun Pushing MySQL but Mentions PostgreSQL
От | Aurangzeb M. Agha |
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Тема | Re: Sun Pushing MySQL but Mentions PostgreSQL |
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Msg-id | Pine.LNX.4.44.0208201407060.28689-100000@cinemaspace.berkeley.edu обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Sun Pushing MySQL but Mentions PostgreSQL (Jim Caley <caley@chesco.com>) |
Список | pgsql-general |
Thanks for posting this Jim. Its always good to have others point you in a direction where you can keep the pulse on the wrist of the industry. While I don't have an opinion on Sun's LAMP initiative, I do think it's important to point out that at the end of the day, all the software we use, languages, IDE's, DB's, are all tools to get a job done--I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir. I suspect that LAMP is pushing for MySQL because _they_feel_ (emphasis) that it'll be an easier tool for their user-base to use. I struggled to choose between either MySQL and PostgreSQL for my current contract (in Greece--the weather here rox, BTW!!!) simply because I'm a complete novice to DB's. As an application developer, I'm making my first jump into actually designing, building, and maintaining my own, large, multi-lingual DB. A the end of the day, I decided to go with PostgreSQL simply because I felt that it was a better tool than MySQL _for_this_project (emphasis), but it doesn't mean that I wouldn't choose MySQL for another project. I hope this last statement (or any other part of this e-mail) doesn't get me flamed like a Greek Souvlaki (like a gyro). Peace from Greece, Please don't flame me, ;-) Aurangzeb On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Jim Caley wrote: :A while back in the "read this and puke" thread, some were bemoaning :Sun's LAMP initiative, where the 'M' stands for MySQL. I was just :reading about this in eWeek :(http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,476267,00.asp) and doing a little :bemoaning myself. The article quotes Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's new head :of software, explaining it. : :But then I came across an article by InfoWorld's Steve Gillmor :(http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/08/19/020819opcurve.xml) :where the same Jonathan Schwartz says, "We will go drive Linux like a :wedge. We will go hollow out DB2 and WebSphere with either a free :database or a free app server. We can give away the Apache Web server, :Postgres, a free directory, a free messaging system, a free calendar and :free portal, a free infrastructure. All of it for free for 100 users, :and we can still make money. Microsoft can't." : :The "Postgres" seems to have been thrown into his little riff casually; :it's not "official" like the MySQL in LAMP. But I thought it was :interesting nonetheless. : :Jim Caley : : :---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- :TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org : -- Aurangzeb M. Agha | Email : aagha@bigfoot.com | Home : +3 010 8959.558 34 Nafsika St. | Direct: +3 010 8995.875 Voula 16673 | Mobile: TBD Greece | Voice : 415 412 4234 (US Only) | e-Fax : 978 246.0770 PGP ID: 0x68B3A763 | "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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