In message <[email protected]>, Don Robinson
<[email protected]> writes
Perhaps a bigger push into the open source space would help. I recently
read that MySQL has a long history of bugs, like losing all your data,
and some of them will not be fixed. Yet it remains the most popular
free database.
For those who haven't been following the news, it's just been announced
that Oracle are buying Sun. Sun bought MySQL a year or so ago. So what
will happen to MySQL is debateable ...
Oh - and as for "bugs, and some of them will not be fixed", I doubt
that's true any more. It *WAS* a deliberate design decision that MySQL
was optimised to give a very fast read-only backend for things like web
databases. It's now turning into a full-blown industrial-strength
database.
We have a better mouse trap, why doesn't the world know it?
Because they've been conned by the "relational, it's maths so it must be
right" mantra, without realising that the 12 rules underneath it are
rubbish.
Just, my 2 cents worth.
BTW, I'm looking for programming work!
Universe, Unidata, jBASE, etc.
Linux, Aix, Windows, Mac.
So am I, unfortunately ... :-(
Cheers,
Wol
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thimble. 'What *is* he?' said Magrat. 'They're gnomes,' said Nanny. The man
lowered the thimble. 'Pictsies!' Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett 1998
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