Update: LAMP

Marshall Spight wrote:

>
> As someone who has been working closely with MySQL for 3 yeras now,
> I am confident that the people who beat up on MySQL have been
> overly nice. MySQL in the enterprise is a disaster.
>
>

Hate to say this, but expect to see a lot more of MySQL. The theory is this. There is a growing buzzword in the free/open software community called "LAMP". A LAMP system is running Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. This is a very easy way to start writing web software, and is gaining momentum.

It is reasonable to expect that LAMP will be the Visual Basic of Linux, bringing it into the mainstream with lots of garbage software.

FWIW, a better alternative is probably LAPP, for Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL/PHP, which gives the three musketeers a more fitting partner.

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