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MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors?
geekinexile writes: "Bloomberg is running a story on the growth of MySQL as an alternative to the big commercial database systems." The story mentions PostgreSQL as well, and presents a generally positive view of both.
I've been telling this all along. Linux is not such great idea for business environment. Having today such a wide support from IBM, Oracle or recently Sun we will see opposite trend in upcoming months.
How much more prove is needed to see the damage Linux is doing to our economy and companies. Soon, more and more software companies will go bankrupt if we start replacing everything with free stuff.
It's time to slowdown with linux development and rethink the strategy. Linux should stay as a hobby and free development platform for colleges before future CS students move to commercial work.
A Fortune 500 company probably isn't limited to local business. They probably do business all over the world. I don't know which one is more globalization challenged, PHP or MySQL, but they're both like Gilligan's Island: primitive as can be.
.Net, XML, HTML 4, etc., are Unicode to the bone, the last I checked poor PHP and MySQL were both still stuck in the legacy world of regional character encodings. You can build a global app with Java/Oracle or .Net/SQLServer, but the best you can do is a regional app with PHP/MySQL.
Whereas NT/2K/XP, SQLServer, ASP.Net, Java, C#,
This doesn't only matter for monster projects. Small systems can still be global -- unless you decide to go with tools like PHP & MySQL.
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
A "RDBMS" that does not support very basic RDBMS functionality is not a threat to any of the big RDBMS vendors. No company that cares about its data would be storing it on MySQL.
Scanning through these posts, I even saw one ridiculous person say something about being tired of all of this "database pretentiousness"... as if demanding that the application that is storing your *data* - one of the most important assets of your corporation - actually supports *basic* RDBMS functionality.
So, go right ahead. Acuse people who actually manage databases for a living of being "pretentious", and store your data in a database that doesn't even support foreign key constraints, or stored procedures. Write all your logic into your PHP code, since you can't actually write it into the database itself.
Then, when your database becomes a totally corrupted nightmare, because you can't even enforce basic standards of relational integrity in MySQL, maybe you'll think about all the "pretentious" people who actually knew what they were doing, and think that maybe you should have listened to them.