Tell them Yahoo, Google and others use mysql in the order of power > 50 servers.
50-1000 servers actually. So, with all the great talent @ Yahoo / Google as well as these 2 companies being profitable maybe some things in life are really 2 good to be true. Usually no brain-er debates are the best way to win with managers. - Dathan Vance Pattishall - Sr. Programmer and mySQL DBA for FriendFinder Inc. - http://friendfinder.com/go/p40688 -->-----Original Message----- -->From: Randy Chrismon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -->Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:51 AM -->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -->Subject: My Company DB Wars --> --> -->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] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
