-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Inandjo Taurel wrote:
hi Maciej,Most of the developers for MySQL are 'professional labour' with 'university degrees' who are _paid_ by MySQL AB to develop the MySQL product. We also had to be 'assessed good enough to work for MySQL AB', and the interview is around 2 years long, because a large part of getting your foot in the door is based on your participation in the MySQL user community, and the fact that you've demonstrated in-depth knowledge of MySQL and MySQL internals.
the only arguments you can get in favour of mysql is that it's free, and some of its SQL statement are faster than interbase.
Interbase has the advantage of having views, stored procedures,triggers,and it's crazily fast.
Don't forget that interbase is also written by professionnal on borland campus, guyz who completed a university degree and were assessed and were judged good enough to work with borland; whilst the average developpers for mysql are volunteers who are not paid for what they are doing!
We do get a large amount of effort from the community (which we really, really appreciate), but a large majority of it is in answering questions in the mailing lists, testing, filing good bug reports and in providing connectivity to the database from other languages and tools (PERL, PHP, Java, Ruby, et-al). This community effort is what makes MySQL (and all other open-source databases) a special breed, and available to many people for varied uses, at low-to-no cost. Many of these uses were not even imagined by the people behind the core database software!
-Mark
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