Re: Building enterprise websites with apache

jasen wrote:

Ok. I stand corrected, I've not been motivated to investigate, MySQL,
but given its popularity figured it must have something going for it.
(was it just first to release a windows installer?)

I once asked in the PostgreSQL mailing list, and according to them,
at the time the Internet was gaining popularity and database-enabled
websites started to be a necessity, PostgreSQL simply was not ready
for primetime --- I think mostly installation and ease-of-use issues.

MySQL was, IMHO, also far from ready for primetime (it is *today*!!),
but not in a noticeable way: it did only a small percentage of what
a serious RDBMS should do, but presumably it would do it easily and
smoothly; after it became the "de facto standard", then it is just
a "vicious circle" kind of thing: one chooses MySQL because everybody
else chooses it --- more people develop work around it (books,
libraries, etc.), because it is the one that everyone uses; but
everyone uses it precisely because there are many libraries, books,
etc. available!

I guess MySQL is going after those who would use access

This is probably a slight exaggeration --- after all, MySQL has
always been a client/server DBMS, which already puts it ahead of
Access. But it works as a figure of speech, to convey the idea
that it is not much more than a toy (certainly another use of
hyperbole --- but you get the idea)

while postgres is
aimed at replacing oracle?

This part is probably quite accurate.

Carlos
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