Re: Proposed Letter Text to Decision-makers

Sim Brigden wrote:
> The following is a letter I'm drafting.  I propose that it be sent to
> non-technical decision-makers in Government.  I would very much welcome
> your views on how to improve/refine it.
> 
> DRAFT
<snip>
> MySQL - www.mysql.com -
> 
> Speaking of databases, MySQL is becoming seriously mature.  It is not
> as industrial strength as Oracle, DB2 or SQLServer, but the new
> features that are in version 4.x allow it to do many of the things the
> big, expensive databases do.  I have even been able to connect Oracle
> Forms to MySQL (for example) though an ODBC connection and it works
> just fine.  Set up correctly and backed up properly, this screamingly
> fast little database is becoming more and more valuable.

Hi Sam,

Just noticed this, and though "would it be useful to include PostgreSQL" 
here too?  PostgreSQL is an "application level" database similar in 
features to Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, etc, and that compliments the 
targetting of MySQL as a "web site" level database.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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