Calle, > Remember that this is a very small country (250,000 people) - just a little > big bigger than one of our sub-districts here in South Africa (we have 250 > of them). For a population as small as that you can use nearly any dbms. You shouldn't, especially when technically better alternatives are available under the same or better conditions.
> Nevertheless, it's a positive development - FOSS is moving ahead Sure, so I said. > The Health (Management) Information Systems Programme I'm working with now > covers wholly or partially countries/states with around 200 mill people. We > are moving towards DBMS independence for our solutions, but MySQL at the > moment seems to be the logical FOSS option (many states/provinces are > already using ORACLE, MS SQL or DB2, so it obviously makes sense for them to > host health data in the same DBMS). I am completely baffled as to why this makes MySQL the logical FOSS option ?!? BTW, I *have* read the article. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
