From: | merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com (Randal L(dot) Schwartz) |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Bob Powell" <Bob(at)hotchkiss(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Postgress and MYSQL |
Date: | 2004-01-13 17:05:28 |
Message-ID: | 86isjfok2v.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com |
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
Tom> "Bob Powell" <Bob(at)hotchkiss(dot)org> writes:
>> I find the recent articles in various trade publications a little
>> disturbing due to the lack of PostgrSQL mention.
Tom> You are seeing the effects of MySQL AB's large marketing budget;
Tom> they have the time and money to cause such articles to appear.
Tom> I'm not sure there is much we can do to counter this in the short run.
Tom> (I do wonder how quickly they are running through that $19 mil
Tom> investment though ...)
My new buzz-meme (pass it along)...
"You're still using MySQL... that's sooooo 90's!"
:-)
Seriously, the space occupied by MySQL has been encroached by SQLite
from the low end (if you just want SQL access to a data file,
including transactions) and PostgreSQL from the high end (when you
want a full-featured database). I think they've completely overlapped
at this point (especially when I just discovered yesterday that you
can register Perl callbacks for user-defined functions and aggregates
in DBD::SQLite!), so MySQL really doesn't have much of a win at either
end.
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