[DUG] Suitable Database for XE2 Pro

[Steve Peacocke]

On Thursday, 19 January 2012, Richard Vowles <richard at developers-inc.co.nz>
wrote:
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> On 16 January 2012 22:01, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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>> Now that Oracle owns MySQL I heard some muttering that the best real
open source DB out there is now Firebird – not sure how well Oracle is
treating MySQL but going by how they are treating Dalbek (The version of
Java Google uses to develop for Android) I would be worried (ie Oracle is
trying to sue the pants off Google to get licence fees for Android. Would
be like Embarcadero suing the Free Pascal organisation (same language,
different compiler)
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> I think the Postgres crowd would disagree with you there :-) Remember
MySQL being GPL means you can't ship it with your app - unless you open
source your app or pay for MySQL. Both Firebird and Postgres are the only
two "main" fully open source databases.
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> Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor
> Developers Inc Ltd

There is of course SQLLite but that is not a client server database by any
stretch. A very useful DB for particular uses and quite widely used, but
not a "real" DB by most terms.

Steve

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