Re: The future of Java
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Qu0ll wrote:
"Arved Sandstrom" <dcest61@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Lew wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
Even if they are swallowed in the blender, I would like to publicly
thank them their part in providing me Java, MySQL and Open Office.
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
SUN did not provide you MySQL. SUN just acquired the company
not long ago. And have lost most of the original people since then.
Small loss.
I rate MySQL far, far below Postgres, Derby and the free versions of
Oracle DB and IBM DB2.
That's roughly my take on it as well. Choosing from PostgreSQL, SQL Server
or Oracle XE for my local work on Windows/Linux/Mac OS X lets me do
everything I need to do to support my company's clients. In fact I use SQL
Server on the odd .NET project only to keep acquainted; otherwise I'd pare
my choices down to Postgres and Oracle XE. Nothing against Derby - I just
haven't had occasion to use it now for some years.
The beauty of using Derby of course is that it just installs as part of your
application. No separate or specialised installers required.
This is also true of H2 and HSQL, no? You just add their JARs to your
application, and it gains the ability to make and use their databases
wherever it goes. Of course, with Derby you don't even need to add a JAR,
but that's such a trivial thing to do that it hardly seems like a
significant advantage.
tom
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