[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Christopher Hunter]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 13:51 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:

> > That, however, is a symptom of the pervasiveness of the MS platform on
> > the desktop rather than a deliberate accreditation.
> 
> One University lecturer who I know is teaching a database course, most of it on MS access.
> A bit of MS SQL -- I suggested MySQL (which he doesn't know) and was told that it
> is not what they would ever want to know. (or something).

The two CS lecturers I know (not in this country) both use MySQL because
their University is not prepared to pay the exorbitant prices for MS'
brokenware, and because they want to teach "generic" computing, rather
than the quirks of a particular manufacturer's software.

C.

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