[thelist] Database Licensing Question
Raditha Dissanayake
jabber at raditha.com
Tue Dec 21 10:27:59 CST 2004
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>>:-) For someone on the windows platform i would say there is little
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>>reason to use mysql anymore.
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>Well... scalability would be one... MSDE is restricted to 2GB database size,
>and 5 concurent users... and when you need to scale to MSSQL your licenses go
>through the roof.
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I am largely in agreement with your entire post except for this point.
Though mysql databases can be > 2GB their license fees ( at least
according to their own interpretation of the GPL) aren't cheap.
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Raditha Dissanayake.
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