SQL Anywhere Feedback - help us fight against mysql!

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help us fight against mysql!

Mauro Bertapelle

2005-05-24, 7:23 am

I don't know how, but please do something to let sqla
shine over the painful but unfortunately so pervasive
mysql.

Perhaps an lighter version, with only the db server engine
and some kind of licensing restrictions that can still
be a vailable option for all of the opensource projects
normally built around mysql..

It's so difficult for us to explain people why we need
a better db then mysql.. I believe sqla can't continue
to be the "best-kept secret" in the IT world..

Jason Hinsperger $iAnywhere$

2005-05-24, 1:23 pm

Are there specific arguments you hear from people for MySQL, other than the
fact that it is 'open source'?

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"Mauro Bertapelle" <NOSPmauro. bertapelleAM@jmatica
.com> wrote in message
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>I don't know how, but please do something to let sqla
> shine over the painful but unfortunately so pervasive
> mysql.
>
> Perhaps an lighter version, with only the db server engine
> and some kind of licensing restrictions that can still
> be a vailable option for all of the opensource projects
> normally built around mysql..
>
> It's so difficult for us to explain people why we need
> a better db then mysql.. I believe sqla can't continue
> to be the "best-kept secret" in the IT world..

Mike Nicewarner

2005-05-24, 8:23 pm

Well, open source and FREE. That is pretty hard to beat.

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Jason Hinsperger (iAnywhere) wrote:
> Are there specific arguments you hear from people for MySQL, other than the
> fact that it is 'open source'?
>

Erik Anderson

2005-05-24, 8:23 pm

Well, not completely free as the free version is released under GNU while a
commercial license is also available.

There is a free-royalty version of ASA available, but it is fairly
restrictive in what it can do.

"Mike Nicewarner" <"mike[at]datamodel[dot]org"> wrote in message
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> Well, open source and FREE. That is pretty hard to beat.
>
> --
> Mike Nicewarner [TeamSybase]
> http://www.datamodel.org
> mike[at]datamodel[dot]org (can you figure what to change?)
> Sybase product enhancement requests:
> http://www.isug.com/cgi-bin/ISUG2/submit_enhancement
>
>
>
> Jason Hinsperger (iAnywhere) wrote:

Steve M

2005-06-01, 8:23 pm

Ask them about Views, Triggers, Stored Procedures and Subqueries. Ask them
who is accountable if they run into a problem? Ask them about Replication,
remote working, offline working, synchronization, maturity of the product,
support and development. Ask them about scalability, upgrade paths, Java
in the database, proxy tables, ODBC drivers (yeah ask them how crappy they
are for MySQL), and ask them how Microsoft Query and other slice and dice
products are going to return data efficiently with a poor Odbc driver, and
ask them how much software corporations are going to do to help MySql and
ensure it doesn't have problems when new generations of product appear. Ask
them if something is so good, how come they can't give it away to the 60%
plus who choose SQL-A for mobile and embedded databases.

Online Books? Data Architect? Reverse Engineering? Hey, maybe they have some
of these things.

;-)

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Steve

> I don't know how, but please do something to let sqla shine over the
> painful but unfortunately so pervasive mysql.
>
> Perhaps an lighter version, with only the db server engine
> and some kind of licensing restrictions that can still
> be a vailable option for all of the opensource projects
> normally built around mysql..
> It's so difficult for us to explain people why we need a better db
> then mysql.. I believe sqla can't continue to be the "best-kept
> secret" in the IT world..
>

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