John Nichel wrote:
Even if his ISP doesn't have MySQL installed, he can still install it in his _home_ directory.
Don't understand that - either you are setting up a site on an ISP or you are working from home. Not many ISP's allow you to install applications on their system?
Far too many knee jurk reactions assume MySQL is the answer to everything. Thankfully ISP's are now supporting other mush more convenient options :)
Convenient? Like what, PostgreSQL? Oracle? MSSQL? Progress? Flat files? Maybe I'm biased, but for handling data like this, I don't find anything more convenient than MySQL.
This caught me at a bad time - another customer I was trying to hook decided that he HAS to use MSSQL/ASP even after we gave him a live demo of his finished system on PHP and Firebird. We don't get any money, and yet he is prepared to pay 10 times as much for something that will not now be live until next year. MySQL is in the same camp - hook the customer and sting them for licence fees later :)
I'm just glad it's been dropped from PHP5, where SQLite is the flavour of the month - that I can compete with ;)
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