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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer
To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:16:11 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass),
	tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-chat@freebsd.org,
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> I'd be concerned about that, too.  We've studied the issue and have decided 
> that to put GPLed code in the standard system would be dangerous.  It does 
> not appear to be a problem for optional components, so we may use GPL code 
> for elective add-on products.  This even drove us to use PostgreSQL rather 
> than MySQL in our product, though MySQL would have been a better fit.  

The pre-GPL license on MySQL was actually incredibly _worse_
than the GPL.

> I must say I like pgsql a lot better.

I keep meaning to play with this; does it support triggered
mutual replication between two hosts running the code?  I
really want fault tolerance, load balancing, and automatic
fail-over (basically, by having the load all move to one
machine instead of two [actually more complicated], so that
everyone gets degraded service, instead of some number being
denied service entirely).

I don't have triggers in the code, but I actuall have MySQL
set up for mutual replication via log replay, so that the
database and its replica stay more or less synchornized.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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