Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- Subject: Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:37:30 -0800
On Dec 31, 2003, at 3:09 PM, Creed Erickson wrote:
On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 09:56 AM, Chris Hanson wrote:
(Why is everyone focused on MySQL and PostgreSQL anyway? There are
other great databases out there, like FrontBase...)
Cost, portability to other platforms, source availability,
documentation. In this latter arena, I get the following number of
hits searching category "Books" at Amazon for the indicated keyword:
2 for "OpenBase"
7 for "FrontBase"
110 for "PostgreSQL"
399 for "MySQL"
I would say that data fairly reflects the relative number of times
these names come up in a list discussion.
And if we search for some other terms:
6358 results for apple macintosh
14217 results for microsoft windows
31 results for "objective-c" cocoa
71458 results for .net
As for the other issues:
MySQL may well cost you money, depending on how you want use it.
OpenBase and FrontBase both run on Windows, Solaris and Linux, which I
think covers most people's platform requirements.
I have yet to see a convincing case for the desirability of source code
for the average developer-user of a database. If you notice buggy
behaviour in the core MySQL server, are *you* really going to fix it?
This is not to claim that either FrontBase or OpenBase will be a better
solution for everybody, but rather that anyone wanting to entrust
important data to a repository should base their decision of which
server to use on rather more than just book rankings and availability
of source code.
mmalc
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