| From: | "Marshall Spight" <marshall(at)meetstheeye(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL the right choice? |
| Date: | 2002-03-13 07:50:17 |
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"Richard Chrenko" <richard(at)solarenergy(dot)ch> wrote in message news:3C8EF7D7(dot)1003ECC3(at)solarenergy(dot)ch(dot)(dot)(dot)
>
> MySQL looks like it's free until you want to bundle it with a commercial
> application, at which time license fees are required. What is the
> situation with PostgreSQL?
That's not why you want to avoid MySQL. You want to avoid MySQL
because it's underpowered. No transactions, no foreign keys, no subselects,
etc. etc.
> Given that we have a Java application and don't have the manpower to
> port a DBMS, what are the platforms on which PostgreSQL is currently
> stable?
I think the short answer is "all of them." It runs great on Windows (under cygwin)
and many unix and linux.
Try it out.
Marshall
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