On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 21:19 +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > 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? http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
