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Which database – and how much?

This morning’s elevator talk snippet (at OSCON)

“So, which database do you use?”
“Yes.”

Turns out this company uses pretty much (each where appropriate) all – except Sybase, for whatever reason…
It was someone from whitepages.com.

Right now I’m in Tim O’Reilly’s executive briefing which is a new separate event at OSCON. The first panel is on the impact of open source on web 2.0. Guests are Jim Buckmaster (CEO of Craigslist), Chris DiBona (Google), Jeremy Zawodny (Yahoo!). During their intro, they were actually arguing over who used MySQL the most 😉
Jeremy reckoned it was Yahoo!, but you never know with Google. Craigslist is interesting in another way also. When looking at big succesful companies, most have thousands of employees. Craigslist has 22.

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  1. “Turns out this company uses pretty much (each where appropriate) all – except Sybase, for whatever reason…”

    Probably because Sybase hurts. The product I work on supports it and it has caused the other engineers, especially, no end of headaches.

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