Re: Year of the Open-Source Database

BTW - I did submit some feedback on this article at the site, pointing
out some of the error/omissions, but I never saw it show up... :-(

Robert Treat

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:28, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Guys,
>
> > It is another story, which don't ask both sides - there are only
> > opinions from MySQL team and they are totaly out of mind if they think
>
> FWIW, Newsfactor is not a real "publication"; they are a news clearinghouse
> for any random stringer* who wants to submit stories, and pay some tiny fee
> per article (like, say, $30). As a result, their quality control is
> non-existant.
>
> Given that the reporter didn't contact us, we're lucky we got a mention at
> all. If anyone can get the reporter's e-mail, I'd be interested in offering
> our help for future articles. Please, everyone, remember that it is never,
> ever, effective to criticize a reporter.
>
> "sub selects" indeed! "We all query in a yellow database, a yellow database
> ...." (Actually, MySQL has reason to be ticked about this article as well,
> they got subselects in 4.0)
>
> * stringer = low-paid freelance reporter. Generally gets paid by the word or
> line.
>
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> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
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