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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