...the Internet is sucking more and more everyday. I really wish these big corporations would go and create their big corporate private network (as was proposed in earlier articles, because the Internet doesn't 'conform to economic models properly'). Then the Internet can go back to what it was intended to be used for -- sharing of information and open communication, with a nice simple text interface...:-)
I don't think Tomcat counts, because it is just a servlet engine, and does not rely on any bundled Sun products to run, other than the runtime environment.
Careful with your terminology. PostgreSQL is no more public domain than Linux or Apache. Public domain means the product in question does not bear a copyright, like a piece of music written 200 years ago. PostgreSQL most definitely is copyrighted, and is distributed under the Berkeley Open Source License. Very different than 'public domain'.
MySQL is good as a read-only database for static archives, but I would choose PostgreSQL anyday over MySQL for more dynamic data, just for the fact I can use views and sub-selects. Yes, PostgreSQL doesn't have foreign keys yet, but because PostgreSQL supports triggers, you can implement foreign keys (in fact, there is an add-on module that accomplishes it in just this manner). PostgreSQL also has a usable full-text search module that is also accomplished through the use of triggers.
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...the Internet is sucking more and more everyday. I really wish these big corporations would go and create their big corporate private network (as was proposed in earlier articles, because the Internet doesn't 'conform to economic models properly'). Then the Internet can go back to what it was intended to be used for -- sharing of information and open communication, with a nice simple text interface... :-)
Where does it say MSNBC did the poll? It was a Princeton Group that did it.
I don't think Tomcat counts, because it is just a servlet engine, and does not rely on any bundled Sun products to run, other than the runtime environment.
Careful with your terminology. PostgreSQL is no more public domain than Linux or Apache. Public domain means the product in question does not bear a copyright, like a piece of music written 200 years ago. PostgreSQL most definitely is copyrighted, and is distributed under the Berkeley Open Source License. Very different than 'public domain'.
MySQL is good as a read-only database for static archives, but I would choose PostgreSQL anyday over MySQL for more dynamic data, just for the fact I can use views and sub-selects. Yes, PostgreSQL doesn't have foreign keys yet, but because PostgreSQL supports triggers, you can implement foreign keys (in fact, there is an add-on module that accomplishes it in just this manner). PostgreSQL also has a usable full-text search module that is also accomplished through the use of triggers.