Reading this reminded my of a VERY POPULAR Operting System. Guess, guess!!!
Saludos... :-) On Jue 27 Dic 2001 16:30, you wrote: > 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 > t -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
