>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jan> It seems to concern MySQL now at least. They have changed their minds Jan> on many enterprise features that PostgreSQL has for years. The Jan> strategy of misguiding people like "you don't need foreign keys", "you Jan> don't need stored procedures", "yadda yadda triggers", "blah blah Jan> views" didn't work forever. So they have to add or propose those Jan> features one by one. I've noticed a similar strategy in the PHP vs Perl dimension. PHP started out being "simple and fast and easy to learn" by throwing off all of the "complexities of Perl that weren't needed". Slowly and steadily, lagging about 3 to 10 years behind, PHP has adding one-by-one all those "weird Perl features", but doing a poor job of integrating them. So, you can get PHP for 2007 already. It's called Perl, and it's probably already installed on your box. "PostgreSQL is where MySQL will be in five years" might be a good catchmeme. Anyone wanna run with it? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
