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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>I know there will probably me more replies still but I just
wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who contributed for their invaluable
input; it has certainly been a useful exercise to gather the views of experts
such as yourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Chris Lovell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 December 2008 16:45<br>
<b>To:</b> West Midlands PHP User Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Phpwm] PHP Vs .net<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>No, I'd really peg a lot of the
troubles stemming from this as infrastructure issues, as mentioned previously.
MySQL is used by companies like Google (<a href="http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2005/12/lets-get-real-database.html">Adwords
was setup using it</a>, for example.)<br>
<br>
Ultimately, so long as your infrastructure is sufficient, then language/DB
won't matter massively. Personally, I'd be of the opinion that if you've
already got a system using a certain technology, stick with it. You've already
got the techies and wotnot required to support the architechture you're
currently using, why go through the expense of retraining etc...?<br>
<br>
One mitigating point may be that you obviously get a much lower overhead using
FOSS as opposed to proprietory, but when the main requirement is stability then
it's not so much of an issue.<br>
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Chris<br>
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-btw, have to agree on calling shenanigans on your .net bods moaning about lack
of support - because of course M$ offers so much additional support to their
products over the support LAMP systems have!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2008/12/2 Lester Caine <<a href="mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk">lester@lsces.co.uk</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Alex Mace wrote:<br>
> I call FUD on that. Please provide concrete, real world examples about<br>
> how you need a "more stable" database than MySQL? Or are you
just<br>
> trying to imply that MySQL is unstable?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Down time on things like wikipedia and osm have manly been
due to<br>
problems with MySQL so YES I am quite happy to say that MySQL is<br>
unstable. So for 24/7 operation I would certainly be looking to remove<br>
that as an element of the equation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Lester Caine - G8HFL<br>
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Firebird - <a href="http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php</a><br>
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