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From John Sidney-Woollett
Subject Re: Postgress and MYSQL
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Msg-id 4588.192.168.0.64.1074012165.squirrel@mercury.wardbrook.com
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In response to Postgress and MYSQL  ("Bob Powell" <Bob@hotchkiss.org>)
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Bob Powell said:
> I continue to see articles about how IBM may be considering MYSQL for
> development an open_source web database.

Why would IBM use and promote postgres when it is much closer an offering
to DB2 than MySQL, and a much bigger commercial threat?

I'll bet that IBM will be planning on a nice migration path from the
open-source-web-db to DB2...

John Sidney-Woollett

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