The problem is that postgres has failed to thrive as a web based back end database. Ever heard of
the LAMP soluton? Linux + Apache + Mysql + Php. Its unfortunate, but real. Its easy to find
hosting with Mysql db, its not as easy (although getting more common I think) to find hosting with
Postgres db.
Having used (still using) both Postgres and Mysql, without a doubt Postgres is superior to Mysql,
and probably used more for back end systems then for web based db. Mysql is used for many web site
probably because Mysql is "sufficient" for what most web sites need.
Terry Fielder
Manager Software Development and Deployment
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
terry@greatgulfhomes.com
Fax: (416) 441-9085
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of David Parker
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 3:30 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] trash talk
>
>
> In an article about IBM's releasing Cloudscape to Apache,
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1630856,00.asp
>
> eWeek says:
>
> "The developer community for Cloudscape now consists of about 80 IBM
> developers, Rivot said. IBM of course anticipates that population will
> explode when the open-source community gets its hand on the code, but
> just because a product goes open source doesn't mean it will
> succeed, as
> can be witnessed by the failure of the PostgreSQL database to thrive
> under this model."
>
> It's amazing how much list activity there is for this "dead" database!
> ;-)
>
> - DAP
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