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Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2002 Editors' Choice Awards

Aug 15, 2002  By Rebecca Cassity
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SEATTLE, WA -- SSC Publications, publisher of the award-winning monthly magazine Linux Journal, is pleased to announce the winners of the fifth annual Editors' Choice Awards.
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Rebecca Cassity is the Director of Sales for Linux Journal

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Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2002 Editors' Choice Awar

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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 09/02/2002 - 02:00.

Any reason why MySQL won? Just because it is the choice of the uneducated masses does not mean it should be the choice of the editors.

Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2002 Editors' Choice Awar

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/04/2002 - 02:00.

Agree, Postgres is actually an "proper" SQL database.

MySQL is just MicrosoftAccess without the UI, when it comes to functionality

Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2002 Editors' Choice Awar

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/03/2002 - 02:00.

I can think of three reasons from personal experiences using them both. MySQL exceeds postgresql in; ease of administration, driver support and availability of 3rd party software.

Postgresql might be the best RDBMS system from a technical point of view, but imo it falls short on the three issues I mention from a end-user point of view.

Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2002 Editors' Choice Awar

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/03/2002 - 02:00.

Make that three...

When matching Open Source software head-to-head with proprietary offerings, why do we insist on starting what should be a "second string" database. Unless your only criteria is speed, Postgresql is a much better representative of what free software is capable of achieving.

Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2002 Editors' Choice Awar

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/03/2002 - 02:00.

I agree. With the exeption of replication, I cannot

see any reason to use mysql. postrgesql provides way more useful features, and is just as easy to use.

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