On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:58:46PM +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Saturday, October 09, 2010 03:10:01 pm Erik Trimble's cat walking on the > keyboard wrote: > > That said, I never understood why MySQL was actually popular. PostgreSQL > > was so much better at the higher side of features/performance, and > > SQLite was easier to use and (IMHO) better at lower-end stuff... > > True, PostgreSQL is more database oriented than mysql, which is much > developer > oriented. Moreover PostgreSQL was the database used by Sun before the deal > with MySQL AB.
It was popular because it was ... popular. Seriously: it is the same like with php - "Why use php ? Because so many people use it. So we do ..." - despite the fact that it there are so many better technologies around .... Regards Przemyslaw Bak (przemol) -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mieszkania, domy, dzialki - najlepsze oferty! http://linkint.pl/f281e _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
