Re: [News] Sun CEO: OpenOffice.org Reaches 2,000,000-3,000,000 New Users PER WEEK

[Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Ezekiel" <nowhere-there@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> "JEDIDIAH" <jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> On 2009-03-09, Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> JEDIDIAH <jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>> What total nonsense. MySQL is very competent for most small to mid
>>> businesses for the price.
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>>    No it isn't. At best it is functional as a "development" database
>> where things like uptime and data integrity aren't really important.
>> It also doesn't scale very well and you will quickly find yourself in
>> a position of needing to migrate to a more robust product.
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> You might want to tell that to MySQL's customers. They must not have 
> received your memo of how MySQL is utter crap. For some reasons companies 
> like Craigs List, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Virgin Mobile, etc seem to think that 
> MySQL is more than just a "functional development database" where uptime and 
> data integrity are meaningless.

Is there a "stupid bug" going round the "advocates" at the moment? I do a
lot of work with mysql and its fine. Great for free in fact.