On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:11 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think what we really need here is a bad car
analogy. See, the
Internet is like a series of interstate highways going through
tunnels. And when we take a dump of a Wikipedia, it might be an
eighteen-wheeler or it might be a Matchbox car. MySQL is diesel,
Postgres is premium unleaded. And the radio only does AM, but the
music is better. Also, keep your tyre pressures up. I'm sure you can
see where I'm going with this.
The only problem with the premium unleaded is that it fails to
power the 18 wheelers. And diesel doesn't help a Matchbox
car either.
Now, if we start talking hydrogen fuel cells, the entire argument
is moot.