I think that there's no real definition for "popular" leaves it as a massively ambiguous claim.
They could easily produce a survey of users of MySQL (sample selection bias) that "prove" it has higher customer ratings - that'd work for "popular". On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 at 17:17 Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > I was reminded today that MySQL still prominently advertises themselves as > "The > world's most popular open source database", on their website and in their > product announcements etc. > > However, isn't that claim clearly wrong, given that SQLite for one has way > more > installations than MySQL does, and that's just for SQL DBMSs. > > Is it worth having some kind of official statement from the makers of > SQLite > about this, that MySQL is using false advertising? > > Or is the idea that SQLite has the most installations not easily provable? > > -- Darren Duncan > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
