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What's the "noise" about MySQL?

From Dave Odom
it seems MySQL is another in a long line of supposedly "cheap"
and "open" offerings that may lead folks down a primrose path ...

That comment surprised me, coming from you, because you've made so many posts in the past indicating that the most prominent characteristic of a "real RDBMS" is popularity. And according to one of the links that Vern posted, mySQL boasts 11 million installs. If that's right, then I'd say it's pretty popular. So it must be a "real RDBMS", right?

Sorry for chiding you, but I couldn't resist. I've never used mySQL so I don't have much of an opinion from a developer's perspective.

From a marketing perspective, the linkage of mySQL with Linux, Apache, and Php (or perl, or python, or ruby), otherwise known as the LAMP stack was a brilliant move; an open-source alternative to so many commercially bundled alternatives. It's bound to attract a lot of techies.

Nathan.





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