Ben Clewett wrote:
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).
Write your software to handle mutiple backends and let the customer choose what they're willing to pay for. If they want to use it with MySQL, they pay the licensing fees. If they want to use it with Postgres, they don't. I they find Postgres too slow and want to use MySQL, that's their choice. If they decide they want to use it with Oracle, that's their choice too.
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Michael T. Babcock
C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd.
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock
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