Re: [LI] RE: StarOffice and a thought

[Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Rahul  Kumar wrote:

> We also dont have good examples of installations of MySQL and
> Postgresql.

For examples of PostgreSQL installations worldwide, follow links from
http://www.pgsql.com. I saw two companies from India listed there

> MySQL's fantastic benchmarks exist on their own site and so are
> questionable

To question the veracity/authenticity of a benchmark merely because it is
put up by the organisation itself, is IMHO a bit unfair especially when
the organisation happens to be promoting an Open Source/Non commercial
application. I have seen several Open Source Database benchmarks (again
follow the links from "WWW Resources" to "Database Resources" starting
from http://www.linuxhq.com) and not one seemed to written with an
intention to mislead.  

I have also corresponded with several from the core development teams of
MySQL as well as PostgreSQL and I have found them to be forthright and
refreshingly honest when it comes to discussing the relative merits of
their own design and code. For example PostgreSQL devlopers are acutely
aware that MySQL is *very* popular. They even have an opinion why. 

> they also compare to Oracle using ODBC which is unfair.

Why do you find this unfair? If I were planning to connect to a MySQL
backend from a front end on a different platform/application (surely a
common design gien the popularity of VB as a front-end design tool), this
benchmark would be important to me.

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