Yeah it was my hope back in those days that Sun would buy out PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. And totally agree on MySQL being more developer focused than actually database focused.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Mon, October 11, 2010 9:58:46 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to soon hike MySQL pricing! On Saturday, October 09, 2010 03:10:01 pm Erik Trimble's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > That said, I never understood why MySQL was actually popular. PostgreSQL > was so much better at the higher side of features/performance, and > SQLite was easier to use and (IMHO) better at lower-end stuff... True, PostgreSQL is more database oriented than mysql, which is much developer oriented. Moreover PostgreSQL was the database used by Sun before the deal with MySQL AB. Luca _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
