Re: OS not good for database

"at the time, everybody bought Microsoft's IAS; it was the dominant web
server around—85% share, something like that. And Apache just utterly
crushed them"

What I want to know is when did Microsoft have 85% of the web server
market? I sure don't remember that. Maybe he means 85% of the Windows
Web server market.

I really like Postgres and have found MySQL useful in the past but I do
home that Oracle does well. From what I have seen they do have a good
product and work hard at supporting it.

I can tell you that I do wish that more open source projects supported
Postgres. Things like PHPNuke. Yes I know that you "can" make it work
but it is not easy to find the docs for. I also know that somewhere
their is a version of bugzilla that runs on Postgres but I have not had
much luck finding it. DBD::pg for Windows needs to be fixes ASAP. I use
Linux on my servers but most of the workstations here are Windows.
Frankly better support for Python, Ruby, and any of the other scripting
languages under windows would really help. MySQl has more support in a
Windows enviroment. I am talking client support not server support.
Frankly runing postgres under windows has not practical application for
me. I am sure that other people will find a lot of use for it though.

Other than that I love Postgres.


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 14:18:47 +0200,
>   Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud <lists@boutiquenumerique.com> wrote:
>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>Can you provide a link to the interview?
>>>
>>>Simon
>>
>>http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=6186_0_4_0_C
>
>
> Someone should tell Larry that Linux actually does predate Apache.
>
> His comments about Linux being backed by companies seemed strange, as
> MySQL is effectly owned by a company.
>
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