On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:39:16 +0200 "Massa, Harald Armin" <chef@xxxxxxx> wrote: > a quite interesting read. > > http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/stranger-than-fiction-story-online-poker-tracker-postgresql There are a couple of comments comment that maybe someone could correct: "The popularity of PostgreSQL as DBMS for handhistories is by no means just a matter of some alleged technological superiority over MySQL. Let's not forget that Pokertracker, Holdem Manager etc is proprietary software, so they really don't have any other choice but to bundle with postgreSQL. If they were to ship their products with MySQL, they would either have to open-source their products according to the GPL, or pay hefty commercial license fees." or "Bogdan's comment is right on the money. There are licensing issues with MySQL. MySQL commercial licenses are contracts with Sun. Not cheap. It had to be PostgreSQL." I understand the license differences (and for my taste I prefer GPL over BSD) but the above affirmations seems to imply pg couldn't stand up just on its technical merits. I don't think this is the case. Someone more knowledgeable about licenses and with a better English than mine should correct the comments. -- 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
