[thelist] Which RDBMS?

raditha dissanayake jabber at raditha.com
Sat Aug 14 01:23:13 CDT 2004


Kasimir K wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd love to hear your views on different RDBMSs. Are the proprietary 
> ones (MS SQL Server, Oracle, ...) better than open source (MySQL, 
> Postgre, ...) or are they just more expensive?

According to mysql's wierd interpretation of the GPL it's not free 
anymore. If people  start believing what mysql says you will pretty soon 
have to pay license fees for the sendmail, linux kernel etc etc. so be 
carefull.

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