Personally Postgres is something that can effectively stand in the same league as Oracle and friends. Version 8.0 has some really neat features, such as tablespaces for one. http://advocacy.postgresql.org/advantages/ is useful in explaining what is available.
Aly.
Was about a year ago on the mysql web site I believe. I read through
all the stuff they had there on the licensing. It was important to me
as well. When the issue first came up I had been using mysql for a few
internal applications. After reviewing the information available I
opted for using postgresql (which was easy to transition to btw) as it
has much more liberal and clear cut licensing. The mysql information
seemed fuzzy at best. Technically I feel mysql and postgresql are
equivalent. There are some slight differences in some of the setup and
admin of the two databases but nothing that is really difficult.
-- Aly Dharshi aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx
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