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MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the larry-scoffs dept.

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.

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  1. Sounds like they did the right thing to me by GCP · · Score: 2, Troll

    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.

    Whereas NT/2K/XP, SQLServer, ASP.Net, Java, C#, .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.

    This doesn't only matter for monster projects. Small systems can still be global -- unless you decide to go with tools like PHP & MySQL.

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