On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:04 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Samantha Atkins <sjatkins@xxxxxxx> writes: > > Why is MySQL so much more popular right now, especially in the > > OpenSource community? > > I think it's strictly historical. The mysql bias you see in so > many web tools was established in the late 90s, a time when mysql > worked reasonably well (at least according to the mysql developers' > notion of "reasonably well") whereas postgres was still pretty slow > and buggy. It took us a long time to get from the original > academically-oriented code to something of real production quality. > We're definitely competitive now, but I don't know if we'll ever > fully overcome that historical disadvantage. How popular is Visual Basic right now? And even if it was more popular than C#... what kind of application would you expect to find that start development right now in VB? -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
