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TheQuirk:
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/23/1652243.shtml?tid=136

Intresting how IBM says they're in favor of OSS, yet so negative to MySQL.

400th post, damn it! And I didn't notice it!

[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]

voidmain:
Not at all when you are trying to sell DB2. One of the best DBs out there. But DB2 is only necessary for very large and critical databases.

But DB2 and MySQL are really in classes at the opposite end of the spectrum so IBM should push it, rather than having people use MSSQL where MySQL would do.  Those people aren't going to buy DB2 anyhoo...

TheQuirk:
that's what I was thinking.

you're not going to be running your own personal database on DB2, and you're not going to be running an enterprise level database that gets accessed by thousands of people a minute on MySQL.

preacher:
Well microsoft is entirely against any product that can do the exact same thing as theirs, except its free. A lot of the extra features included in these expensive database applications arent even used 95% of the time, so why pay for them? If a website like yahoo, which probably gets millions of hits a day, can use MySQL, then it is more than powerful enough to handle almost everything and microsoft and IBM might actually have something to worry about.....lol. I use MySQL and php to provide a small database driven website and it more than suits my needs. Why should I pay hundreds of dollars for my small needs? Microsoft doesnt realize that not everyone out there runs a business website.

Calum:
they think that people who do not run a business website do not count and need not be marketed to since they are likely to spend less money.

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