Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

On Thursday 18 May 2006 12:38, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Personally, I'd go after MSSQL before I bothered with MySQL.   Sure, let's
> make *migration* easier for those who wake up and smell the BS, but
> migration can (and probably should) be one-way.
>

If you want to get users to swtich to your software from your competitors, you 
have to eliminate barriers, and a big one for any database is getting locked 
into a specific one.  People aren't going to take the time to try switching 
to postgresql if they can't easily make it back to thier former database. 
It's one of the reasons why PostgreSQL's standards compliance is so 
important; if you want to swtich to a new database, your best bet is to give 
PostgreSQL a shot, because even if you don't like it, we're not going to try 
and trap you into our software with bunches of non-standard knobs. Low 
barrier to exit == low barrier to entry. 

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL