Hi,

> > > Perhaps time for some evangelization action?
> >
> > I don't think we should try to "steal" customers from MySql.
>
> My choice of words was rather missing the point.
>
> What I was really thinking, is, that I really very much
> like the Wikipedia project and want them to have less
> techical problems.
>
> And, of course, only saying "with Firebird you won't have
> DBMS caused downtimes" won't help anything, even if true.
>
> So, and only assuming that it is a problem solely of MySQL,
> the Wikipedia project would need a volunteer to port to
> a DBMS better fitting the ever growing load. Whatever the best
> DBMS would be.

And you think Firebird would be better?

Do take in account that it fully needs to support unicode
charactersets and all, something I believe you know quite
something about :-)

Etc etc... It might be a bit harder then you think :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
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