Success -- MySQL / MyODBC replication

[Jeffrey Watts]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Bradley Miller wrote:

> Thanks for everyone's comments and suggestions.  I never knew how much
> of a debate this would be -- but it's fun nonetheless.  I was using
> Oracle with Cold Fusion when at Sprint and it was a pretty sweet
> setup, but again costs come into issue.  I was looking at Microsoft
> SQL server, but by the time you license NT Server, SQL 7.0 and that
> you're looking at a pretty hefty chunk of change.

SQL Server was originally Sybase IIRC -- I believe pricing is similar.  
If you feel the need to use NT, I'd recommend Sybase anyday over the MS
product.

> I think mySQL will do what I need it to do for now, but I'll
> definitely look into the PostgreSQL for some of my other heavy duty
> needs.  I wasn't aware of the licensing issues for it, I knew the ones
> for MySQL though.

PostgreSQL is under the BSD license.  It is, infact, originally a
Stonebraker project from UCB.  Its name comes from the fact that it was
supposed to be "post-Ingres" - the successor to Ingres.

J.

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