Re: How important is your Express or Web Edition database? Please weigh in--

Stan Stadelman wrote: > Hello All: > > I'm trying to see how Web Edition databases are being used in your company > for PHP-driven web-apps. Our strategy team thought that free and community > editions would be dominant, but we interviewed Zend Framework developers > using Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and it looks > like--surprise--that each vendors' market share is about the same as in the > broad commercial market. > > We think this means that you--the PHP developer community--aren't actually > using the lightweight Web/Express Edition for your corporate web-app > deployment, and instead are building out on the licenses for databases your > company is already running. > > Is the Express/Community/Web Edition important for you at work? Is it a > critical sandboxing step for you? Do you run it live for internal > applications? > > Answering these 10 multiple choice questions--should take about 90 > seconds--will help us understand what databases you need in your > professional life, and how to deliver them to you. > > Happy cooking, and thanks! > > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Jro0rkoIGJKuQNpfWZV_2bBQ_3d_3d > What exactly are, Express or Web Edition databases? -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com