Re: Big Projects / Variable Backends

[Roger Burton West]

On or about Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Robert Shiels typed:

>OK - this subject keeps coming up, and I'm confused. I have no religious axe
>to grind about databases, so what should I be using. Keep in mind that it
>must be free and work on both Linux and Windows. Obviously if I want
>industrial strength and I have lots of money I'll probably use something
>like Oracle, but is there something in between that I should be using?

PostgreSQL is the main contender. It's a lot closer to ANSI than MySQL,
and in recent versions is about as fast - and has transactions and
all that neat stuff.

No idea whether one can compile it for Windows. Probably.

Roger