[Gllug] Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu

[Richard Turner]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:24 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 
> That would go a long way to explaining the difference between our
> perspectives.  That said, developers often come to appreciate good
> replication, particularly if they work somewhere that enforces proper
> segregation between production and development environments.  Beyond
> that, it's quite common for an application architecture to use a
> write-to-one, read-from-many approach to databases (for scaling, HA,
> backups, data archival etc) and anybody involved in designing
> something
> like that will realise the importance of replication. 

Oh, I appreciate that it can be an important tool, I just question
whether it is essential. Perhaps I'm just being pernickety though
(something rarely seen on this mailing-list it's true ;).

I still think comparing the lack of built-in replication to the lack of
ACID transactions is a little unfair - it's a lot harder to argue that
ACID transactions aren't essential.

R.

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