Re: Slashdot: SAP and MySQL Join Forces

** Reply to message from PeterKorman <calvin-pgsql-ml@eigenvision.com> on Mon,
26 May 2003 13:52:53 -0400
Actually,
 Given Ibm's demonstrated past marketing prowess with software, your'e more
likely to have an ibm rep or an ibm partner badmouth ibm software (and talk up
a competitor) than not. :)

Regards,
Wayne

> On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 08:12:32PM +1000, Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> >
> >  MySql wasn't enough of a dbms to support our requirements (or that of our
> > clients). SapDb just looked extremely unusual (more effort in the port :).
> >
> >  We have been very pleased with the port to Postgres, and with our clients
> > eager acceptance of it.
> >
> >  It tends to peeve me that MySql gets its name mentioned in more rags as /the/
> > example of an open source competitor to  the commercials. I guess it goes to
> > show just how many folk really are using their "database" as a  simple
> > persistence mechanism for fairly trivial apps, or are willing to live with data
> > inconsistency in their data store.
>
> I like postgresql better, but an amazon search produces 52 titles
> for mysql. Only 11 come back for postgresql. Some cause/effect
> relation exists between available publications and public appeal.
> That relation favors mysql by more than a furlong. Go figure.
>
> Maybe SAP likes MySql because Sun and IBM are bad mouthing it;-)
> I'm sure DB2 strategists have no influence over IBM's public
> statements about other data base products. Aren't you?-)
>
>
> JPK
>
>
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