[Phpwm] PHP Vs .net

[Justin Joyce]

All,

 

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.

 

Justin

 

From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Lovell
Sent: 02 December 2008 16:45
To: West Midlands PHP User Group
Subject: Re: [Phpwm] PHP Vs .net

 

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 (Adwords was setup using it
<http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2005/12/lets-get-real-database.html> , for
example.)

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...?

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.

Chris

-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!

2008/12/2 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk>

Alex Mace wrote:
> I call FUD on that. Please provide concrete, real world examples about
> how you need a "more stable" database than MySQL? Or are you just
> trying to imply that MySQL is unstable?

Down time on things like wikipedia and osm have manly been due to
problems with MySQL so YES I am quite happy to say that MySQL is
unstable. So for 24/7 operation I would certainly be looking to remove
that as an element of the equation.


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