> -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:jblanch...@pocket.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 5:25 AM > To: Michael Dykman; mysql > Subject: RE: Why is MySQL always linked to Php? > > [snip] > PHP applications are, for the most part, not that ambitious > and mysql is simply the most accessible database with the best > developed API. > [/snip] > > I know that you said "for the most part" and you are > absolutely correct. > I just want to point out that there are many corporations > relying on PHP > and MySQL to deliver robust, scalable and enterprise capable > applications each and every day. > > I suppose that is part of the appeal - low barriers to entry with > infinite possibilities.
Yeah, I took a bit of offense to that original statement too. I work for Panasonic Avionics, and we have no less than 12 servers here running LAMP boxes in my department alone. They are in master/slave pairs. We have almost 100GB of data with about 1 BILLION rows. Everytime an aircraft lands, we get an offload about the (IFE) In Flight Entertainment system. What movies are watched, for how long, what games were played, what level reached, did the system reboot, was it commanded to reboot, all sorts of things. We get about an offload per minute or so 24/7. These servers are reliable and the SaaS we sell along with the IFE costs MILLIONS of dollars per airline. The GUI is all PHP with some Python as the backend to parse the offloads. We run Ubuntu 8.04LTS. When I founded WildTangent, everything there was LAMP boxes. All the games checked into a LAMP server. All the backend tools we created were LAMP. They switched to IIS I believe a few years ago because I can only assume that Alex St. John (the creator of DirectX) is a Microsoft guy, and our game technology is based upon Microsoft tech, so it probably didn't look so good to be running Linux for them. ;-) At Lockdown Networks, we sold $50k rack mount units that were all LAMP based with Ruby backends. These units secured many of the worlds networks from banks to nuclear reactors to colleges to government/military agencies. In all cases, we could have spent thousands to millions on Oracle servers or used the free alternatives like Postgress. We researched and CHOSE to use mySQL -- even paying the licensing fees at Lockdown over porting to Postgress (which we seriously looked into) So, I think someone needs to recognize that mySQL and PHP are extremely powerful and robust tools and are used in VERY ambitious projects. ;-) d http://daevid.com There are only 11 types of people in this world. Those that think binary jokes are funny, those that don't, and those that don't know binary. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
