Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:35:40PM -0500, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
>
>> This is really new territory for me (I am a radio guy) I am going to
>> do some AVL work, I need to capture data into a database, that data
>> will be read into mapping machines in order to track the vehicles.
>>
>> I see that I have available two database products on my RedHat
>> machines, MySQL and PostGRES.
>>
>
> MySQL and PostgreSQL have been moving closer in capabilities and speed
> over the years. I believe the primary difference at this point is that
> if you intend do certain commercial things with MySQL, you have to pay
> for a license. I'm not clear on what types of things, and I could be
> wrong entirely. I ran across this some time ago, and for that reason,
> I use PostgreSQL. It has no encumberances whatsoever.
>
> Paul
Thank you, I shall check into this and see what exactly is involved.
I will get books on both of them and see what more I can dig into.
Chuck Hast
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