Re: Will FC2 have MySQL 4?

From: James Drabb (JDrabb_at_tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 02/25/04

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:33:03 -0500

    On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 07:56, WipeOut wrote:
    > Ok, how does this work.. We are developing a PHP based web app that will
    > never be sold and the code is not GPL.. It will be hosted by us and
    > people will subscribe to the service that we are offering and pay a
    > monthly fee.. Would I be required to buy a MySQL licence?
    >
    > Later..

    Simple, dump MySQL and get PostgreSQL. Problem solved. PostgreSQL has
    more features and is better overall IMO, PostgreSQL just did not win the
    popularity contest against MySQL.

    MySQL seems to be shooting themselves in the foot IMO. Though I guess
    one could argue that is is considerably less expensive then Oracle or MS
    SQL Server, however, MySQL doesn't come close to the feature set of
    Oracle. Again, switch your app to PostgreSQL, is should be very simple,
    especially if you abstracted the DB layer and made it generic.

    Jim Drabb 

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