Posted by Chris Hope on 08/26/05 11:34

Toby Inkster wrote:

> windandwaves wrote:
>
>> I only do php and mysql, but recently someone told me that these are
>> hopelessly out of date compared to, for example, dot.net.
>
> Don't listen to them. They've been sucked in by the Microsoft
> marketing machine.
>
> Look towards PHP 5 -- it expands the object-oriented facilities in
> PHP. Many PHP developers have recently focused on making PHP more
> suitable for large-scale projects (possibly because the original
> developer of PHP has been hired by Yahoo, and Yahoo are moving a lot
> of their development over from an in-house language to PHP) and PHP 5
> is the result.
>
> Also, do have a play with PostgreSQL. If you're used to MySQL then you
> shouldn't have much of a leap, as they both use the SQL standard as a
> query language. PostgreSQL supports far more complicated queries than
> MySQL, and much bigger databases (although MySQL is catching up in
> both those areas).

I'm interested to see what's going to happen here. I started using MySQL
over Postgres simply because it had both Windows and *nix support (and
at the time I and my company were Windows users). I've stuck with MySQL
since then as it's what I know but Postgres has always had more to it
(views, stored procedures, referential integrity etc) but MySQL is
finally getting to a similar point. The v5 release should be quite
interesting.

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