> I am sorry, but I highly doubt MySQL will go away in near future.

>

No need to be "sorry", I hope MySQL has a great run of it. VFP has had =

a

great run of it, and is still kicking in a lot of places. And it is not

open source, and is under "soft assault" from within M$. I think MySQL =

will

prove to be very resilient. But I am still glad I chose PostgreSQL for =

my

large scalable back end (to use with VFP of course). Less grief =

involved.

Gil

> -----Original Message-----

> From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-

> bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Grigore Dolghin

> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:09 AM

> To: profoxtech@leafe.com

> Subject: Re: [NF] MySQL > PostgreSQL was Joke (yes, it's computer-

> related!

>=20

> I am sorry, but I highly doubt MySQL will go away in near future.

>=20

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM, KAM.covad

> <a_gmail_noSpam@kenmcginnis.com> wrote:

> > What we need is an easy migration to PostgreSQL from VFP. Unattended

> installation from CD and a replacement for INSERT INTO FROM NAME,

> GATHER, etc

> >

> > Then it would be easier to migrate to something like Python if

> necessary some day.

> >

> > *********************************

> > Below is Joshua Drake's take on Oracle purchasing Sun:

> > I see a large possibility of mass migration from MySQL by non web

> applications.

> >

> > The obvious choice is PostgreSQL because of =A0the BSD license and =

the

> maturity of the software.

> >

> > In conclusion I expect that MySQL in two years likely won't exist

> except

> > on the most tertiary level. Most new projects will be developed in

> > either PostgreSQL, Firebird or one of the forks (MariaDB, Drizzle).

> >

> > http://planet.postgresql.org/

> > http://tinyurl.com/c2tqug

> > http://tinyurl.com/c2dwzq

> >

> >

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