Comment Re:Wrong arguments? (Score 1) 96
they won't be losing many clients to MySQL as MySQL lacks so many features necessary to serious database development. These include stored functions and triggers, subqueries and transactions, without which MySQL is all but useless for anything more sophisticated than simple applications.
More realistically, they would lose clients to PostgreSQL. I know I've worked on a few projects now where Postgres was chosen over Oracle. The new version of Postgres is fast, dependable and has many of the features required for serious database work. And with 6.5 it's even quick.
It still lacks a few things and the PL/SQL language is a little quirky at times... there are a few minor bugs... but its very usable and very robust. And its opensource and free.
In fact, Sys Admin mag used Oracle and Postgres as the only two databases in its PERL database connectivity article last month.
More realistically, they would lose clients to PostgreSQL. I know I've worked on a few projects now where Postgres was chosen over Oracle. The new version of Postgres is fast, dependable and has many of the features required for serious database work. And with 6.5 it's even quick.
It still lacks a few things and the PL/SQL language is a little quirky at times... there are a few minor bugs... but its very usable and very robust. And its opensource and free.
In fact, Sys Admin mag used Oracle and Postgres as the only two databases in its PERL database connectivity article last month.
