Re: PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1 : alternatives to MySQL?

Alle 11:31, lunedì 30 giugno 2003, Matthew Palmer ha scritto: > How does PHP 5 hurt people who develop commercial software? OK, let say you started to develop a program for a small customer some months ago. At that time MySQL was LPGL'ed and you decided to use it for avoiding to charge the customer of the added cost of a RDBMS license. Now your work is almost completed and you are going to install the software but... alas, the installed MySQL _now_ requires a commercial license (that is: $$). Who will pay for it? For sure not you customer: he/she signed a contract for a license-free installation. Maybe you... :-( BTW: of course you did _not_ use PEAR::DB for not affecting the RDBMS performances with a DAL... :-( MySQL does not hurt, of course, but a LGPL to GPL change in the licence policy can do (mostly because you depend on your hosting companies for the type and release of the RDBMS installed on your server). > > Firebird (ex Borland/Imprise Interbase): is Firebird LPGL'ed? > > Dunno. I looked at the license. It is so unreadable that I'm almost sure it is not LPGL'ed (and maybe non even Open Source ;-). Wolf's law: unreadable documents are a sure symptom of the fact that you have to pay for something, even if it impossible to uderstand why, how, how much and when. > mSQL? Hahahaha. So badly non-free it doesn't enter the equation. I > didn't know GNU did an SQL server. Little surprise: I discovered GNU SQL Server just this morning, while looking for an alternative to MySQL. Its status looks very like the one of HURD: dormand or deceased. Too bad... :-( Regarding mSQL, little regret... It is so limited that I would have hardly taken it into consideration. > Perhaps, if that's what gets you going. There are definite advantages to > going to an OODBMS, but I don't know if the benefits (ease of interfacing > to code) outweigh the performance problems that all OODBMS that I've seen > suffer from. I'm going to investigate this hypothesis a little bit further. These days, many web applications are so niche-oriented (and so little used) that performances are hardly a problem (in particular in the case of a dedicated server of the last generation). CU ------------------ Alessandro Bottoni