I'll come in the discussion with an extra topic: ³how to show the ignorant a good product².
If you go to <http://www.mysql.com/> the first thing you see is: ³MySQL is the world's most popular Open Source Database, designed for speed, power and precision in mission critical, heavy load use. MySQL AB is the company owned by the MySQL founders.² If you go to <http://www.postgresql.org/> the first thing you see is a list of mirror sites. For the impatient, what it says on the second page is this: ³PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available anywhere. Commercial Support is also available.² The information on PostgreSQL is more hidden. First round for MySQL. If you try to find ³Documentation² on MySQL's site there is a link to ³Documentation². On PostgreSQL there is not but a text explaining that the documentation had been splited up. Second round for MySQL. Up to now, I can not say if one product is better than the other (suposing that I'm newbbie to both of them), but I can assure you that one of them is presenting to the user on a better and simpler way. That's probably ends up in the comment that ³there are more bibliography for MySQL than for PostgreSQL². Somehow, MySQL realized that is not enough to produce a good product (whatever that means). You have to show it on a proper way as well (and I'm not going into the other extreme... we already know that...) The question here is if we want OpenSource projects being wide used or remain on an specialists realm. My two cents... Best regards, Tomás +-- --+ Tomás García Ferrari Bigital http://bigital.com/ +-- --+ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
