Re: Re: which database to use?

I work with someone who has been following the Interbase 6.0 mailing lists, and is pretty much a guru on the earlier versions of Interbase. I'll see if he's interested... On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote the following to Jouni Ahto : > > > I'm looking for a database with transaction support. I'm currently using > > > MySql in some applications. I know they're coming out with this feature > > > later in the year. > > > > > > The 2 candidates I'm looking at are PostgreSQL and Interbase. PostgreSQL has > > > been around for a while and Interbase is a newcomer to the field. Any > > > recommendations? > > > > I'd say that the interface to PostgreSQL in PHP is more mature, if this > > affects your decision. InterBase in itself isn't a newcomer, just the open > > sourced version. It already has quite a long history. > > For anybody interested in hacking on the Interbase module, I talked to > Interbase and they gave me an engineering contact who will be happy to > answer our questions. > > Brett Bandy - bbandy@interbase.com > > Please do not send him stupid user-level questions though. > > -Rasmus > > >