[KLUG Members] MySQL adoption

[Robert G. Brown]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:31:41 -0500, Richard Harding <rick@ricksweb.info> wrote:

>It is the double edge of the open source world I often see. So often it 
>seems that those in the open world are more apt to try a different 
>product they don't know as well in an effort to use the "best" tool for 
>the job at hand.
Any environment where there are many problems and numerous tools that can 
be used to solve them promotes this kind of experimentationm, hopefully in a 
safe place (not in production!).

It is only in shops where "everything has been decided" that this sort of
thing is really frowned on, especially as really new problems come up.

I looked around here earlier to see what DBMS'es are running. I found 5,
including MySQL and Postgres. I don't feel a need to rush around migrating
everything to one DBMS....

>At the same time there are so many instances of these 
>holy wars between various camps. No one said life as a techie was 
>boring. :-)
I have come to realize that these kinds of confrontations come from those who
are in some sense smaller than the products they use, and seem to derive their 
identity and sucess from that. If one is critical of their tools, they react
as if they have personally been attacked.

Real professionals are bigger than the tools they're using today, in my view.
One mark of a real pro is the ability to see through all the branding and
hype and make choices based on the merits of the situation at hand...

							Regards,
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