Posted by Erwin Moller on 01/18/08 15:53

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
> On Jan 17, 9:24 pm, howa <howac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> any side effect for PHP?
>>
>> what do you think?
>
> 1. License won't change for previous GPLed MySQL versions
> 2. We have PostgreSQL

Excactly! :-)

I never understood how MySQL gained their huge marketshare, given the
fact that PostgreSQL was there, ready-to-use, and free for so many years.
Unless it is MySQL created a Windows version earlier than PostgreSQL
did, so new developers (who only knew how to boot into Windows) picked
MySQL.

I am a big PostgreSQL fan, and I always considered a vastly superior
database compared to MySQL. I always ask/advise my clients to use it.

About Sun: If history is a good reference, they will not screw MySQL up
more than it is already, and propably improve it a little.

Regards
Erwin Moller

> 3. Someone could fork GPL'ed MySQL at sourceforge
>
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