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Monday, October 21, 2002I wasn't going to bash MySQL for offering fewer RDBMS features than say, Microsoft Access, but...
Slashdot comment in response to Novell to ship MySQL with Netware 6:
In related news, Microsoft announced that Cardfile would be bundled in their next version of Windows.
Ken Rawlings is lamenting the cost of deploying ASP.NET database applications compared to LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python).
I say it's all about the TCO. Licensing is a minor cost compared to development, maintenance, and on-going support. For an unfunded project, look to re-use licenses until funding can be justified. Also, don't ignore the fact that many free software packages will run on Windows. PostgreSQL is almost plug-n-play under Cygwin, can be run as a service, and has an ODBC driver.
