On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:17, Mark Walker wrote: While I'll admit to some similarities between PHP/java and mysql/pgsql, I'd say that th gulf between php and java is far less than the gulf is between mysql and pgsql. Take a list of a hundred or so db based projects written in each language. Correlate it to the db used. It's likely you'll find a better correlation to the db used than the language.