On Apr 26, 8:36 am, walterbyrd <walterb...@iname.com> wrote:
> There are tons of MySQL installations. But, I think most of them are
> for very light-weight applications: blogs, small time ecomm, CMSes.
>
> I have read that mysql is used by telecoms. What is there about mysql
> that telecoms like? Is it just cost? Why don't they use postgresql?
>
> Is there likely to be much adoption of mysql for heavy-weight, highly
> secure, applications, like financial and/or medical applications? If
> not, why not?

It occurs to me that the best people to answer this question may well
be the sales people at the MySQL offices. They ought to know all of
this, because that's exactly the kind of information that helps sell
the product.