[PHP] How important is your Express or Web Edition database? Please weigh in--

[Stan Stadelman]

Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey, or who posted to the
thread!

To cover some of the responses:

Yes, web-edition is a reduced-functionality version.  Typically they're
capped at 4GB, a la MSSQL Express Edition.

Our (Sybase) Web-Edition has no volume restriction, but access is limited to
web fronts.  The SQL Anywhere engineering team has solved the
offline/synching issue for local-store db's, such that you can run your php
locally, and provision/sync when connected.  It's likely that we'll deliver
this through the Web Edition, thus my queries.

Ash - I got the feedback, thanks!

Cheers--

-- 
Stan Stadelman
(925) 336-6473
s...@berkeley.edu
stanley.stadel...@sybase.com

[PHP] How important is your Express or Web Edition database? Please weigh in--

[Stan Stadelman]

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

-- 
Stan Stadelman
(925) 336-6473
s...@berkeley.edu