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HP expands open-source support (News.com)

HP expands open-source support (News.com)

Posted Jun 1, 2004 13:48 UTC (Tue) by leandro (subscriber, #1460)
In reply to: HP expands open-source support (News.com) by lakeland
Parent article: HP expands open-source support (News.com)

> mysql wasn't decent when I compared it to postgres. However, that was in 1999

That is still so. MySQL still depends on the aberration of table types, it still encourages coding in the application as opposed to declarations in the DBMS, it is still fragile, it still doesn't scale, it still has too many SQL idiosyncrasies.


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