[Asterisk-Users] OT: Best DB

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:56:47PM -0500, Giudice, Salvatore wrote:

> As for the "production recommendation" you refer to, I would
> respectufully disagree. If you are an enterprise comapny looking to
> deploy an open-source DB, you will pick the one that has an established
> support company to contract with. So, 'NO': postgreSQL is not
> recommended for production environments. MYSQL AB provides enterprise
> class support. PostgreSQL support consists of contracting with mom and
> pop support shops, mailing lists, and irc. That simply will not be
> acceptable for the enterprise user.

You know, you probably shouldn't rely on Linux (the kernel) as there is
no company behind it. I also wonder what is your source for support for
Apache. What about PHP? is Zend your sole source of support there?

BTW: the fact that the MySQL stuff is in add-ons is also because
Asterisk is about as strict as MySQL regarding the license. But you may
also be interested in reading
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2005-February/001301.html

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