Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:19, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > How do I get started here?
>
> First. Please do not use MySQL, unless you don't care about your data.
Please stop this MySQL vs. PostgreSQL bashing. Each has their place. If
users of MySQL don't care about their data, then I guess Bayer, Colgate,
Ensembl Genome Browser, Genome Sciences Center (GSC), The Institute for
Genomic Research, AIRBUS/EADS, Australian Department of Defence, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Ministère de la Defense (France), CraigsList, Google,
iStockphoto, PriceGrabber, Ticketmaster, Yahoo!, CERN - The ATLAS Experiment
at LHC, Bank of Canada, Lloyds TSB Bank, Linden Lab (Second Life), California
Air Review Board, Department of Homeland Security, NASA, NASA Jet Propulsion
Lab (JPL), DaimlerChrysler, Epson, Chicago Sun-Times, Slashdot, Dell,
Hewlett-Packard, Novell, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Texas
Instruments, AT&T Wireless, Cable & Wireless, Cisco Systems, Nokia, Lufthansa
Systems, Orbitz, 37signals, del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Feedburner,
Feedster, Flickr, Freshmeat.net, Technorati, Wikipedia, and YouTube (among
many others, see http://www.mysql.com/customers/ ) don't care about their
data. These are companies that live and die by their data, I'm sure they
care about it very much. Each has their place. MySQL has come a long way
since its 3.23 days. Read the manual. Form your own opinions. A lot has
changed.
j
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