[Bendug] Knock/KNock

[Gary E. Miller]

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Yo Tim!

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Tim Howe wrote:

> 	PHP is everywhere.  Everyone knows it.  It's pretty fast and can manage
> to do just about anything.  It gets the job done.  I personally find it ugly
> and unexciting, but that's just me.  Some people are pop drinkers; I'm not.

Well, actually I would rather code in C, now that is fast, but few
want to pay for that anymore.  Rapid development is what it is all about.

> 	I don't have very nice things to say about MySQL.  I'll just say I
> greatly prefer PostgreSQL and leave it at that.

I have heard that Postgres has come a long way, it was pretty piss poor
compared to MySQL about 5 years ago when last I compared them.  There is
still a lot more free code out there for MySQL than Postgres, and of
course MySQL is just bullet proof.  Got any good reason that Postgres
is now ahead of MySQL?  The main one I heard of was that it was pretty
lite weight, but SQLite now wins that corner.

> Oracle and DB2 may have
> stuff that you can't get with a free system (not sure what that would be), but
> you need to have serious money to throw around for that stuff to seem worth
> it.

Yep, and I have worked with many folks that also wasted serious bucks on
Oracle bugs.  The damn thing will just not stay running under any basic
load.  And then they have to gall to call it "Unbreakable."  Hard to
fix things when you are in total denial.

Yes, DB2 is cool, but I would rather spend the $$ on my own people than
IBM stuff.

> 	I don't really buy anything...

Well, that is what customers are for!  To buy me nice playthings.

> If we can throw
> an entire computer together there is ussually some poor geek out there who
> could benefit from it.

I find that a good deed rarely goes unpunished.  For some reason when
I give someone a computer they think it came with a lifetime warranty
from yours truly.  Better that the stuff rots in my dog pile.

RGDS
GARY
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