On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 08:15:38PM -0800, J. Andrew Rogers wrote: > Given no legacy to support, I think Google would still choose MySQL. > The "why" is an interesting question of culture, and undoubtedly has > ramifications with respect to the success and failure of companies > over the long-term.
I agree the choice was almost certainly not rational, and largely a culture thing (LAMP religion, probably). > it much and it is an early architecture decision. Hell, most of these > cloud computing services are barely thinking about simple data > integration between unrelated applications at this point. The "cloud computing" lingo has started to irk me about as much as Web 2.0/3.0. Just as well they don't use "grid" that often today. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
