My old Micro-Economics professor must be chortling in his grave... The bosses told me a few minutes ago to quit pusing MySQL for an internal project and to move my proof-of-concept tables from MySQL running on a Linux desktop with 512mb of ram and the bloody DB on an external USB to a DB2 database running on a Win2K server with 1GB ram and a 120 GB raid system. The reason? TPTB simply can't believe that a licensed MySQL system at $450 for the base license, no connected user fees and $2,500 per year for advanced support (we need InnoDB, FK constraints and transaction safe tables) can possibly be as good as DB2 at a minimum of 5 times the software cost. Afterall, DB2 has triggers and stored procedures (although nobody -- including the contractors actually doing the coding -- can point to a single stored procedure or trigger that is essential to the project). The contractors ARE making fairly extensive use of views but I've already figured out three ways around them.
Go figger. I will continue to use MySQL for testbedding. Also, since I'm the gate-keeper for the contractor's code, I'm going to keep their stuff as generic as possible. BTW, one question, does MySQL run on the AS400? Randy -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
