Re: Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

From: Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?
Date: 2010-07-29 19:19:35
Message-ID: 20100729211935.164336f5@dawn.webthatworks.it
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:04 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Samantha Atkins <sjatkins(at)mac(dot)com> writes:
> > Why is MySQL so much more popular right now, especially in the
> > OpenSource community?
>
> I think it's strictly historical. The mysql bias you see in so
> many web tools was established in the late 90s, a time when mysql
> worked reasonably well (at least according to the mysql developers'
> notion of "reasonably well") whereas postgres was still pretty slow
> and buggy. It took us a long time to get from the original
> academically-oriented code to something of real production quality.
> We're definitely competitive now, but I don't know if we'll ever
> fully overcome that historical disadvantage.

How popular is Visual Basic right now?
And even if it was more popular than C#... what kind of application
would you expect to find that start development right now in VB?

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it

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