Database products for the UNIX platform

[Andro Gagné]

Colleagues:

	Over the past 3 1/2 years I have had the opportunity, in a corporate 
library setting, to gain quite a bit of experience developing databases 
with intranet front ends and database-driven Web pages using Inmagic's 
DB/TextWorks database software and its WebPublisher CGI/ISAPI scripts.  I 
enjoy working with the Inmagic products very much, but DB/TextWorks was not 
developed for use on a UNIX platform.  I now need to gain similar expertise 
in developing databases on the FreeBSD UNIX platform, on which I've been 
doing some part-time freelance Web development for several years.  Short of 
an enterprise product like Oracle or Sybase, it appears to me that the most 
obvious choices for a FreeBSD-compatible database program would be mSQL, 
MySGL, and PostgreSQL.  I would really appreciate it if any of you who have 
had a significant amount of experience with any of these products could 
share with me the pros and cons of these products as you see them.  Please 
send your responses directly to me.  I will summarize for the list if 
others also seem interested in this information.

Thanks in advance,

Andro Gagné