RE: Why is there so much MySQL bashing???

Take your own advice and keep it professional.  Drop the part about whining
losers and people might not take this as a troll. ;-)  Sorry to everyone,
but I just couldn't resist answering this.

Cheers,
Craig

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hallstrom [mailto:philip@adhesivemedia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:05 PM
> To: PostgreSQL General
> Subject: [GENERAL] Why is there so much MySQL bashing???
>
>
> Hi all -
>     I'm not here to start a war, but it seems to me that there is a
> fairly large amount of MySQL bashing in this group.  Why?  What's the
> point?  It seems to me that if PostgreSQL wants an enemy to fight it
> should be Microsoft SQLServer and Oracle.  It seems to me that it's
> PostgreSQL/MySQL vs those two.  Why fight amongst ourselves?
>
> Now, if there is something truly lacking in MySQL, that completely
> different because this stuff ends up in the archives and people make
> decisions based off what they find there.  However, it needs
> to be kept
> professional, don't you think?
>
> What are my impressions going to be of PostgreSQL (and now
> Great Bridge
> since their name will pop up as well) if I search for "mysql vs
> postgresql" and see a lot of mysql bashing posts in thse
> lists?  I'm going
> to think you all are a bunch of whining losers who can't fathom the
> possibility that there might be good (or even better) alternatives out
> there.
>
>
> That can't be good for PostgreSQL, can it?
>
> -philip
>
>