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><br>Chris<br><br>-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!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/2 Lester Caine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk">lester@lsces.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">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?<br>
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</div>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.<br>
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