On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:05:21PM +0700, David Garamond wrote: > So in my opinion, as long as the general awareness about RDBMS (on what > tasks/responsibilities it should do, what features it generally has to > have, etc) is low, people will be looking at MySQL as "good enough" and > will not be motivated to look around for something better. As a > comparison, I'm always amazed by people who use Windows 95/98/Me. They > find it normal/"good enough" that the system crashes every now and then, > has to be rebooted every few hours (or every time they install > something). They don't know of anything better.
Agree. People don't know that an RDBMS can be more better. A lot of users think speed is the most important thing. And they check the performance of SQL server by "time mysql -e "SELECT..." but they don't know something about concurrency or locking. BTW, is the current MySQL target (replication, transactions, ..etc) what typical MySQL users expect? I think they will lost users who love classic, fast and simple MySQL. The trade with advanced SQL servers is pretty full. I don't understand why MySQL developers want to leave their current possition and want to fight with PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 .. etc. Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html