[TYPO3-dev] sysext's

[ries van Twisk]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Moreno Feltscher wrote:

>> If big companies could make a right choice from the beginning, they  
>> would have invested in MySQL enterprise training, not to Oracle or  
>> MSSQL, which both has huge problems as databases (much bigger then  
>> MySQL).
> Really? Something completely new to me.. also to the database expert
> in our company as well..
>
> But at all I can understand your reasons. I hope if this would be done
> the development on DBAL doesn't stop.

This is my experience aswell... The problem is that MySQL comes
from a history as 'toy' database used by school kids and web DB and,  
rather then in large
enterprises (there are some exceptions, I believe Yahoo is one...)
And although currently MySQL 5 is a lot better then MySQL 4,
it still has problems and as long as these typical 'mysql' problems
exists, it will never be mainstream as a enterprise DB, but they are
heading towards the right direction.

I do understand the reasons for MySQL adoption in web-world,
but also understand it will be hard to digest by large enterprises.

Ries

PS: do I sound like a broken record???