[Web4lib] What Sort of Library is Open Source Software For?

[Ross Singer]

John Fereira wrote:

> Whether a products beats the pants off another depends a lot on the 
> requirements.  I know a lot of people that don't consider MySQL to be 
> a viable technology for enterprise wide database driven applications, 
> especially in the area of transaction management.

I mostly agree with this statement, which is why I made the disclaimer 
[in most conditions...].  Most projects are not enterprise wide at the 
library level (I'm not saying they don't exist, they just aren't nearly 
as common).  There's a ton of content and services that are served from 
Access and FileMaker Pro, so, certainly, there's a market for "less than 
enterprise" level rdbmses.

Also, note, Evergreen ILS is being built upon PostgreSQL (and to be 
considered successful, /must/ scale to the enterprise), and Koha is 
built upon MySQL (although current requirements aren't as demanding as 
Evergreen's).

-Ross.