MySQL license and revolution

[Steve Gehlbach]

Alex Rice wrote:


> There was an interesting article recently about the BSD licensing used 
> by PostgreSQL Inc. (pgsql.com) Their strategy is to develop software and 
> market it commercially for a 24 month period. After that, they release 
> it under a BSD license, which is wide-open for even for competing 
> commercial usages. Most recent example being a DB Replication Server. I 
> wish I could find that article URL. Maybe it was just a press release.

I am a big fan of postgresql for other reasons, it is a far more 
sophisitcated database.  I am an old SQL hack from big Unix days, and I 
could not suffer under mySQL's simple implementation.  It may have 
gotten better in the last few years, but I think postgres has moved 
forward too.  If you want referential integrity, inner and outer joins, 
etc, postgres is the ticket.  I think mySQL has caught on for people 
with only causual familiarity with SQL, and is a little simpler to setup 
and understand.  SQL can be a goofy language to get used to, that's for 
sure.

-Steve