On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:39:34PM +0200, Danny Lieberman wrote:
guys and gals
here's a great reason to buy a MySQL license.
A prospective client told me he was choosing MySQL over Postgres and
Firebird for a system application that bundles a db because:
a) MySQL has the most market
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:47:29AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
License infringements by who? What license? Are we talking about
copyright? Patents? Trademarks?
Any specific guarantee?
It's quite simple, buy THEIR license and THEY won't sue you. Works for SCO.
It's insurance, as in pay the
Tzafrir
There are 3 questions - technology, license and fit
1. there are applications that require technology (like triggers and
subqueries) that dont exist in MySQL - for example
if you want to mgirate from MS SQL to an Open Source database you will
have to reengineer the application.
2. if
Speaking of MySQL, version 5.0 has just gone beta, with long wished
features like stored procedures, triggers and views.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39192964,00.htm
Has anyone tried this new version yet? AFAIK, most ditros have hardly
switched to MySQL 4.x
Danny
Dvir
kinda. They still dont have a procedural language like PL/SQL or T-SQL
and their position on triggers is vague
but they're doing a great job.
danny
Dvir Volk wrote:
Speaking of MySQL, version 5.0 has just gone beta, with long wished
features like stored procedures, triggers and views.
guys and gals
here's a great reason to buy a MySQL license.
A prospective client told me he was choosing MySQL over Postgres and
Firebird for a system application that bundles a db because:
a) MySQL has the most market share
b) We spoke to MySQL and they told us that they will give us legal
