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To: miraje who started this subject	8/18/2002 5:39:36 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) of 19790

Oracle, IBM, Microsoft Challenged by Free Database Software quote.bloomberg.com This represents pretty much what I posted a couple of years ago in the old thread - low-end databases won't cost money in the future. As it looks right now, Interbase doesn't seem to be taken seriously as an Open Source database. The reason is simple: Interbase itself is still 100% written by Borland and the Firebird project has not proved to be independent of Borlands code and version numbers. Interbase is distributed using an Open Source license, but it's not a community developed database. If it had been that, the trouble would be much greater for Oracle, Microsoft and IBM in the low-end range, because Interbase has everything you need on a single-server database system. To those that wonder what MySQL is: It's a flat file database with SQL interface and mutex writing. The SQL is good - and the response time for a query is normally much smaller than for Oracle, MS SQL Server, Interbase and DB/2, because of the mutex thing, leading to a reduced latency on retrieving data. When the loads on the server isn't too big, this makes MySQL seem extremely fast. MySQL is extremely well suited for mass deployment and usage on webhotels. Dybdahl.

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