Posts by Chris Maresca

From 1981: the World's first UMPC

I have one of those...

Still works, and it took 15 years before laptops came back down to that size.

However, you can't really call it a real computer as it doesn't really have an OS and few applications.

Chris.

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MySQL – is this database fit for the Enterprise?

If you use a bank, you use MySQL

More specifically, Wells Fargo uses MySQL as part of it's online banking and BofA uses it for risk analysis. The US Navy uses it to distribute bathymetery data to warships. MySQL runs Travelocity's fare engines (airfare, hotels, etc)

I don't know what you call 'enterprise', but there is no doubt that MySQL is used in enterprise situations, particularly in read intensive applications. While Gartner and IDC may not reflect it in there numbers, that's more likely due to the fact that companies don't like to advertise their competitive advantages rather than any lack of deployment.

Open source databases, not only MySQL but also Postgres and Firebird, are serious competitors to Oracle and DB2 in a lot of enterprise situations. And with commercial vendors like EnterpriseDB and Solid providing high-end features like Oracle compatibility and high-availability, open source database are rapidly gaining deployments at the expense of commercial dbs.

Chris.