Comment Re:Shareholders... (Score 1) 327
One thing I have learned with my VP is never use the word free.
We are useing MySQL in the backend for our classifieds section as well as a yellow pages type directory section. The pages are created dynamically via php. If we had to use a solution like MS Sql or Oracle we would blow our entire budget on licensing costs.
After we were able to prove their reliabilty, scalabilty, buzz word of choice, then were we able to say that it was free (as in beer). Still, one needs to buy support for those moments when everything seems to go bonkers.
