X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Received: from spampd.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB41474E4F for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:41:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from houston.familyhealth.com.au (unknown [203.59.48.253]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1AD474E44 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:41:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by houston.familyhealth.com.au (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) id h3F4g2V02934 for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:42:02 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from chriskl@familyhealth.com.au) Received: from mariner (mariner.internal [192.168.0.101]) by houston.familyhealth.com.au (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with SMTP id h3F4fxJ02798; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:41:59 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <061c01c30309$5d3f62d0$6500a8c0@fhp.internal> From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" To: "Dann Corbit" , "Jeff Hoffmann" , References: Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:42:04 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 0.1.5c - (http://www.inflex.co.za/) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-12.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Archive-Number: 200304/472 X-Sequence-Number: 37962 > And about MySQL: > It's also commercial. You are not supposed to use it except for a > single machine for personal use unless you are a non-profit organization > or unless absolutely everything you do is GPL[1]. Hence, you have to > license it to deploy applications. In order to have transactions, you > have to use another commercial product that they bolt into MySQL -- > Sleepycat software's database. Now you have two license systems to > worry about. Just a correction - you need to use the InnoDB database engine, which is free and GPL and bundled with MySQL. Chris