Re: Which Database

Mark Preston wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:32:45 -0000, "Nick Wild"
> <nick.wild_at_musicfactory.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >We curently use Access as the backend for many of our web sites. However
> >as traffic is rising and the sites are developing it is proving not
> >robust enough.
> >
> >I do not have the budget yet for SQL Server with the Internet connector
> >licenses and do not wish to pay for a 2 year licence for Oracle 8i (which
> >is in budget).
> >
> >Any ideas as to an alternative and more cost effective robust database?
> >
> MySQL or InterBase.

If you are going to try InterBase: it was recently discovered that it had a "back door". You probably want to get the version that has that fixed.

PostgreSQL also is looking pretty good these days.

Barry J. Received on Sun Feb 04 2001 - 23:02:01 CET