Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:16:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Message-ID: <200011302316.QAA24254@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3A26997B.2DA9684@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Nov 30, 2000 11:16:27 AM
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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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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