Yes, probably in many cases it's due to what the administrators are happy using as well. I use postgresql because I do a lot with postgres and that's where my skills are. I've attended MS SQL courses and imagine if that's what you use daily, that's what you'd be happiest with - you know all the backup, replication, performance tweaking etc.
Oliver Kohll
On 3 Sep 2007, at 18:43, Rob Church wrote:
On the performance angle, MySQL should perform better, simply because MediaWiki has been developed against it, and is therefore optimised for it.
Businesses probably don't want to support additional software if they're paying Oracle's, er, prices, for licencing, consultants, training, etc. for example.
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