Alright, I run a MYSQL database at home for my little crappy web server which no one visits because pictures of me visiting Mexico isn't exactly worth typing a number into your browser. All those details aside, why should I switch to either Microsoft's SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g or DB2?
No reason I guess, unless your site isn't built on open source software, on which case you should be paying your commercial MySql licence.
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I'm not from US. May be people there get something about the military fighting the fanatical terrorists without the need for a good story. I don't know. However if you like it suit yourself. It's just not my taste.
Galactica is the worst SF show I have seen in a long time. Really. My memory fails to find something to compare it. It seems to be very succesuful, but I can't just understand why. Actuation, scripts, dialogues, visually, all bad. Even vestuary! Do they really use ties? and their leader is a "president"? May be I'm missing something, but come on! and don't make me start on the human-like-cylon-cloned-terrorist-religious-fanati cals... can it get lower than that?
Governments in countries with a high level of poverty are not going to do anything that benefits the rich at the expense of the poor -- they will be deposed quicker than you can spell AK-47.
Clearly you don't live in the third world. Things are a lot more complex than that. In general governments are very big beasts. One sector can be pro Linux and another is just buying MS because is what they use. And we are having lots of pressure from USA and other countries to introduce patents on everything, from software to GM seeds.
An example for Express: no backup, no replication. How are you going to backup your site's DB, take the server down, detach the database and make a copy?
Wrong. SQL Express can do backups and replication. It is limitied to be a replication suscriber only.
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About 5 years, I've been constantly saying "Java is te Cobol of the future".
Does people that make this comments have any idea of what they are talking about? I worked in COBOL many years ago and JAVA more recently, and they are very, very different languages.
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Please, let me quote from the same siteas you. Seems that Java is more than twice as popular as PHP and growing, while PHP popularity is declining:
TIOBE Programming Community Index for December 2005 December Headline: Java and C# Nominees for "Programming Language of 2005" Award
The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo! are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TPC index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.
Position Dec 2005, Position Dec 2004, Programming Language, Ratings Dec 2005, Delta Dec 2004
On the other hand, Java runs on Unix and Windows. Is there a working version of.NET for Solaris? Yes. http://www.mono-project.com/
Wrong. The answer is no. Mono !=.Net, because Microsoft only opened the CLI and C#, not.Net. From the site you link:
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Do you fear that Microsoft will change the spec and render Mono useless?
No. Microsoft proved with the CLI and the C# language that it was possible to create a powerful foundation for many languages to inter-operate. We will always have that.
Even if changes happened in the platform which were undocumented, the existing platform would a value on its own.
Could patents be used to completely disable Mono?
First some background information.
The.NET Framework is divided in two parts: the ECMA/ISO covered technologies and the other technologies developed on top of it like ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Windows.Forms.
Mono implements the ECMA/ISO covered parts, as well as being a project that aims to implement the higher level blocks like ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows.Forms....
The controversial elements are the ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows.Forms subsets. Those are convenient for people who need full compatibility with the Windows platform, but are not required for the open source Mono platform, nor integration with today's Mono's rich support of Linux....
Not providing a patented capability would weaken the interoperability, but it would still provide the free software / open source software community with good development tools, which is the primary reason for developing Mono.
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Enlightening, isn't it?
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You know, some people like to have applications packaged in their native OS standard. That doesn't mean the application isn't the same, only the packaging is different. In the case of Azureus it has some native components -notably Eclipse SWT- but AFAIK the Java part is the same in every distribution.
That's FUD. You can read the source of Java anytime. You can compile it and colaborate on the new versión (6.0). You can't distribute AFAIK. There is no obscurity, all is there.
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Since when is language design a grad. discipline?
"Linguistics is the study of languages; it converges with computer science in such areas as programming language design and natural language processing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
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I am lousy at separating the language from its APIs
Perhaps you are the one with the problem here. After all Java, like some other languages, have about 50 keywords, all the rest is API and is clearly noted as so in the documentation (see Java 2 Platform API Specification. Don't see how can be any confusion there.
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Think of the scalability too- During development on your local machine you use flat files. Then you post it to a site and use sqlite during testing. Then you take it to a host with mysql support and use that. Then you take it to postgresql clusters and use that. All with minimal code changes. Most won't have all those steps, but it'll be nice to be able to switch swiftly between them all, and not have foreign methods of doing things all over the place.
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No reason I guess, unless your site isn't built on open source software, on which case you should be paying your commercial MySql licence.
From http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/:
In their simplest form, the following are general licensing guidelines:
I agree a 100% with you. It really seems to be made by someone who don't understand it.
I'm not from US. May be people there get something about the military fighting the fanatical terrorists without the need for a good story. I don't know. However if you like it suit yourself. It's just not my taste.
ANY computer event rates only by the booth babes you can find there.
what's not to like?
i cals... can it get lower than that?
Galactica is the worst SF show I have seen in a long time. Really. My memory fails to find something to compare it. It seems to be very succesuful, but I can't just understand why. Actuation, scripts, dialogues, visually, all bad. Even vestuary! Do they really use ties? and their leader is a "president"? May be I'm missing something, but come on! and don't make me start on the human-like-cylon-cloned-terrorist-religious-fanat
I don't agree, prepare to die!
Governments in countries with a high level of poverty are not going to do anything that benefits the rich at the expense of the poor -- they will be deposed quicker than you can spell AK-47.
Clearly you don't live in the third world. Things are a lot more complex than that.
In general governments are very big beasts. One sector can be pro Linux and another is just buying MS because is what they use. And we are having lots of pressure from USA and other countries to introduce patents on everything, from software to GM seeds.
Microsoft submited C# to a standards organization but didn't open .Net. Then .Net is neither a standard, open source. And is only available in Windows.
An example for Express: no backup, no replication. How are you going to backup your site's DB, take the server down, detach the database and make a copy?
Wrong. SQL Express can do backups and replication. It is limitied to be a replication suscriber only.
That language would be called TrashCan.
If you can't tell Java from COBOL you don't know either.
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About 5 years, I've been constantly saying "Java is te Cobol of the future".
Does people that make this comments have any idea of what they are talking about? I worked in COBOL many years ago and JAVA more recently, and they are very, very different languages.
Yes. http://www.mono-project.com/
Wrong. The answer is no. Mono !=
From the site you link:
Enlightening, isn't it?
You know, some people like to have applications packaged in their native OS standard. That doesn't mean the application isn't the same, only the packaging is different. In the case of Azureus it has some native components -notably Eclipse SWT- but AFAIK the Java part is the same in every distribution.
You mean that Perl is some kind of programming language? and that it can be debuged? Nonsense!
That's FUD. You can read the source of Java anytime. You can compile it and colaborate on the new versión (6.0). You can't distribute AFAIK. There is no obscurity, all is there.
Two words: uuencode uudecode
the internet has gone a long way... backwards
I have only this to say:
Since when is language design a grad. discipline?
"Linguistics is the study of languages; it converges with computer science in such areas as programming language design and natural language processing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
I am lousy at separating the language from its APIs
Perhaps you are the one with the problem here. After all Java, like some other languages, have about 50 keywords, all the rest is API and is clearly noted as so in the documentation (see Java 2 Platform API Specification. Don't see how can be any confusion there.
Unless your hammer have the form of a letter J?
and changing the extension from .php to .java...
this gets better and better, didn't thought a PHP article could bring so much fun.
Think of the scalability too- During development on your local machine you use flat files. Then you post it to a site and use sqlite during testing. Then you take it to a host with mysql support and use that. Then you take it to postgresql clusters and use that. All with minimal code changes. Most won't have all those steps, but it'll be nice to be able to switch swiftly between them all, and not have foreign methods of doing things all over the place.
Yeah, like Java... (* me ducks *)