Re: Complete country-wide open source medical systems installation in 90 days

[Matt Simpson]

Personally, I have used MySQL for a number of very large projects; in 
fact some projects exceed 250,000 users and tables that exceed 4 - 
5GB's. MySQL does have a few draw backs, mainly in the replication 
area, but no draw backs that would stop me from using it for a project 
such as that. Any specific reason you're "hating" on MySQL Karsten? 
Sure it's not Oracle -yet-, but it's definitely suitable for some large 
scale deployment, that's been proven over and over.

That was my "stick-up" for MySQL. Enough said.
They're on the right track IMHO, with adding a DAL for DBMS 
independence. Congrats.

Regards,
Matt Simpson
On Jul 12, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
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
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