I’m buried in a huge database project at the moment — converting a sprawling set of MS Access databases to a new MS SQL server backend — which has me breathing, sleeping, and dreaming about databases. Microsoft SQL is a good product to work with, and I’m really enjoying working through the technical challenges and creating some huge performance improvements for our users with the migration.
But so far in my web-based applications — including a school-wide course evaluation system — I’m using MySQL, which is also a terrific product. I think its good news that Sun is acquiring the company. Sun’s strong reputation in the enterprise arena should help with wider adoption of the program. Java already has a strong presence in our software development teams — so it’ll be nice to see MySQL use grow as well. Why prefer MySQL over MS SQL? — I don’t know, maybe its just some latent ‘any thing but Microsoft’ feelings.’ Or a strong feeling of support for a company and product committed to open source. Or maybe its just that it works so darn well.
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But the biggest news of the day is… we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you’re an industry insider, you’ll know what that means – we’re acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database.
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Trip added these pithy words on Jan 17 08 at 1:26 pmAnother reason to like MySQL is that it’s so portable: runs on MS, Linux/Unix, or Mac. So for example I do development at home on a site I work on in my spare time (ha!) on an older Mac laptop, but the host is Linux. Doesn’t matter. For that same reason, we use MySQL for the backend to our newer CLS apps, even though our code is MS.
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