AW: [Mapbender-users] MySQL Support

[Arnulf Christl]

Koordinierungsstelle PortalU wrote:
> Dear Christoph,
> 
>> I would like to ask those, who still use MySQL with Mapbender, to
>> answer in this thread in order to find out how many people still
>> use Mapbender with MySQL.
> 
> The PortalU-Mapbender (www.portalu.de) currently uses MySQL.
> 
>> I would also like to to start a discussion about how you think
>> about dropping MySQL support. However a decision has not been made,
>> and I would like to encourage everyone concerned with MySQL to join
>> the discussion.
> 
> For our central installation it might be no problem or even a good
> idea to switch to Postgres. In fact, we are discussing on this at the
> moment.
> 
> However, we distribute our software to our cooperation partners
> (German Federal Government and Federal States) and our personal
> experience is, that it is not always easy to convince public
> administration IT people to use "free" databases at all because they
> are normally used to either Oracle or MS SQL Server. We found it much
> easier to promote MySQL compared to PostgreSQL, don't really know
> why. Hence, stopping MySQL-Support might narrow Mapbender acceptance,
> at least in Federal Government/States environments. But as I said,
> just our personal experience...
> 
> Cheers, martin

Thanks for your input, this was also my gut feeling. Hopefully we will be able to continue support for MySQL, its just another place to mess up things and a hassle to package and deploy if no one uses it. 

Best regards, 
Arnulf. 

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>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von:
>> mapbender_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
>> [mailto:mapbender_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von
>> Christoph Baudson Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. März 2008 14:24 An:
>> Mapbender User List Betreff: [Mapbender-users] MySQL Support
>> 
>> Hallo,
>> 
>> da die Unterstützung von sowohl PostgreSQL als auch MySQL für das
>> Mapbender-Projekt einen nicht unerheblichen Aufwand darstellt,
>> wurden Stimmen laut, ggf. die MySQL-Unterstützung in absehbarer
>> Zeit einzustellen.
>> 
>> Ich möchte zum einen diejenigen, die noch Mapbender mit MySQL 
>> nutzen, bitten, in diesem Thread zu antworten, um einen Überblick
>> zu gewinnen, wie groß die Gruppe der MySQL-Anwender unter den
>> Mapbendernutzern ist.
>> 
>> Anderseits möchte ich eine Diskussion anstossen, inwieweit dieser
>> Vorschlag auf Eure Zustimmung oder Ablehnung stößt.
>> 
>> Eine Entscheidung, ob oder wie MySQL-Support weiter geleistet 
>> werden kann, ist noch nicht gefallen, und ich möchte alle 
>> Betroffenen bitten, sich zu diesem Punkt zu äußern.
>> 
>> Danke und Gruß
>> 
>> Christoph
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> as supporting both MySQL and PostgreSQL is a major effort, people
>> suggested to drop MySQL support in the near future.
>> 
>> I would like to ask those, who still use MySQL with Mapbender, to
>> answer in this thread in order to find out how many people still
>> use Mapbender with MySQL.
>> 
>> I would also like to to start a discussion about how you think
>> about dropping MySQL support.
>> 
>> However a decision has not been made, and I would like to encourage
>> everyone concerned with MySQL to join the discussion.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Christoph
>> 
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