AW: Java vs .NET was: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic

> > > > Not only that, but open source and low cost databases like
> > > MySQL will be
> > > > replacing SQL Server at the low end.
> > >
> > > OMG!  ROTFL  With the advent of that latest and greatest, 
> subselects
> > > and stored procedures MySQL leaps to where any widely used
> > > commercially available relational database has been for years.
> > >
> > 
> > perhaps. perhaps not. but you should not look at the 
> features of the database but for the requirements of its 
> usage and at its costs.
> > 
> > and one thing i do know is that we use here multiple MS SQL 
> Servers and that those could be easily replaced with MySql 
> servers without loosing any performance. what i want to say 
> is that most people who are using an MS SQL Server never 
> needed anything like it and could very well go with a MySql server.
> > 
> > the reason it ain't that way is mostly political.
> > 
> > my 2 cents.
> > 
> > mk
> > 
> 
> The thing I always felt held it back for serious enterprise use was
> that it did not implement the concept of atomicity.  Although I
> believe the most recent version does that.

<quote from mysql website>
1.7.5.3. Transactions and Atomic Operations

MySQL Server (version 3.23-max and all versions 4.0 and above) supports
transactions with the InnoDB and BDB transactional storage engines.
InnoDB provides full ACID compliance. See Chapter 14, MySQL Storage
Engines and Table Types. 
</quote>

it seems that it does.

and for all the others, give up your prejudices against open source
databases.