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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to wade in on the question of base SW for
the XS server, especially as regards database support. I think the
principle should be to use the software with the most users and developers, and
therefore the most support, unless there is a compelling reason not
to. So the popularity of LAMP/WAMP would suggest using mysql unless there
is a strong reason to use something else, like postgresql. Martin has
argued strongly in favor of postgresql in <A
href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=24831">http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=24831</A> (June,
2005), but he doesn't say which version of mysql and whether he is using
innodb. Greg Smith (? of EDuBlog fame) wrote a more neutral evaluation in
<A
href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Why_PostgreSQL_Instead_of_MySQL:_Comparing_Reliability_and_Speed_in_2007">http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Why_PostgreSQL_Instead_of_MySQL:_Comparing_Reliability_and_Speed_in_2007</A>,
which does take into consideration MySQL 5.x and innodb. Even when I
installed moodle using yum on XS build 163 it came bundled with mysql libraries,
not postgresql. So my question is, given that this is OLPC and not OLTP,
are there still reasons not to use mysql in light of more recent improvements
(not to mention purchase by Sun, which is both positive and
negative)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tim</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>