> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Ballard [mailto:aball...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 3:26 PM
> To: Bastien Koert
> Cc: Shawn McKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: How important is your Express or Web Edition
> database? Please weigh in--
> 
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Bastien Koert <phps...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Shawn McKenzie
> <nos...@mckenzies.net>wrote:
> >
> >> Stan Stadelman wrote:
> >> > Hello All:
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to see how Web Edition databases are being used in your
> >> company
> >> > for PHP-driven web-apps.  Our strategy team thought that free and
> >> community
> >> > editions would be dominant, but we interviewed Zend Framework
> developers
> >> > using Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and it looks
> >> > like--surprise--that each vendors' market share is about the same
> as in
> >> the
> >> > broad commercial market.
> >> >
> >> > We think this means that you--the PHP developer community--aren't
> >> actually
> >> > using the lightweight Web/Express Edition for your corporate web-
> app
> >> > deployment, and instead are building out on the licenses for
> databases
> >> your
> >> > company is already running.
> >> >
> >> > Is the Express/Community/Web Edition important for you at work? Is
> it a
> >> > critical sandboxing step for you? Do you run it live for internal
> >> > applications?
> >> >
> >> > Answering these 10 multiple choice questions--should take about 90
> >> > seconds--will help us understand what databases you need in your
> >> > professional life, and how to deliver them to you.
> >> >
> >> > Happy cooking, and thanks!
> >> >
> >> >
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Jro0rkoIGJKuQNpfWZV_2bBQ_3d_3d
> >> >
> >>
> >> What exactly are, Express or Web Edition databases?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks!
> >> -Shawn
> >> http://www.spidean.com
> >>
> >>
> > Just another marketing tool to sell a limited toolset db to punters
> who like
> > marketing hype
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Bastien
> 
> I thought they were free. Limited, but free. (reduced functionality or
> limited number of connections compared to the commercial versions of
> the products) I've not heard of "Web Edition", but I have heard of
> both SQL Server and Oracle Express. I haven't used them, but I guess
> the idea I have in mind is of products that are supposed to be just
> good enough to use in either embedded apps or else to entice
> developers into wanting the full version for server apps.

I use SQLExpress (SQL Server Express) all the time at work for prototyping and 
such... although, I have to say--if my company hadn't installed it on my 
machine to begin with, and they weren't running SQL Server 2005 on the 
production servers, I would rather just use a private MySQL installation for 
prototyping and then push to a MySQL production server. Alas...


// Todd

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