Rusch (ext) Reiner wrote:
Hi Ben,
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MySQL is cheeper than Oricle. But it's not free. Not by a long way.you're right! It's NOT free. Just for personal use there're no costs.Ok, if you're not making money on what you're working, then you're right! But: Is it the fault of MySQL AB that you sell your work for nothing? I don't understand, why everybody wants anything for free! Open Source != Freeware The license of MySQL is very cheep! Look at oracle and you know what I try to explain. Ok, Oracle is an other thing, seems to be for very greath projects, but if you need speed and having a small budget then MySQL is a good choice.
Our market is for large scale small products. Stuff which can be downloaded and paid for later. Simple desk-top databases. It's a good market and were good at it. When our applications sell for Ł50, a $100 licence fee is quite a lot. A $10 is quite a lot on 1000 products, when $0 is available. It's amazing what the effect of the word 'Manditory' on customers has...
Here MySQL cannot compete. Your too expensive. Possibly only that MS-MSDE is 50Mb to download that anybody thinks about MySQL at all.
Here there are very little competitive DBMS systems. But there are some, and more each day. PostgreSQL, MSDE, SapDB, OpenInterbase (or what ever it's called).
It's worth noting, that all of these are also more mature than MySQL, (Views, Procedures, Transactions, Triggers, Functions...) and all of them are cheeper.
Where will we be in ten years time? Not MySQL the way it's going. Which is a shame, as I acutally like MySQL.
Regards,
Ben
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