Re: Postgress and MYSQL

From: "John Sidney-Woollett" <johnsw(at)wardbrook(dot)com>
To: "Bob Powell" <Bob(at)hotchkiss(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgress and MYSQL
Date: 2004-01-13 16:42:45
Message-ID: 4588.192.168.0.64.1074012165.squirrel@mercury.wardbrook.com
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Bob Powell said:
> I continue to see articles about how IBM may be considering MYSQL for
> development an open_source web database.

Why would IBM use and promote postgres when it is much closer an offering
to DB2 than MySQL, and a much bigger commercial threat?

I'll bet that IBM will be planning on a nice migration path from the
open-source-web-db to DB2...

John Sidney-Woollett

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