On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 21:19 +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:04 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> > Samantha Atkins <sjatkins@mac.com> writes:
> > > Why is MySQL so much more popular right now, especially in the
> > > OpenSource community?
> >
> > I think it's strictly historical. The mysql bias you see in so
> > many web tools was established in the late 90s, a time when mysql
> > worked reasonably well (at least according to the mysql developers'
> > notion of "reasonably well") whereas postgres was still pretty slow
> > and buggy. It took us a long time to get from the original
> > academically-oriented code to something of real production quality.
> > We're definitely competitive now, but I don't know if we'll ever
> > fully overcome that historical disadvantage.
>
> How popular is Visual Basic right now?
> And even if it was more popular than C#... what kind of application
> would you expect to find that start development right now in VB?
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