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Postgre would probably been used instead. The demand for an easy to use Web scripting language existed, php fit the bill that's what pushed mysql to become popu
by kyriakos 10y ago
Postgre would probably been used instead. The demand for an easy to use Web scripting language existed, php fit the bill that's what pushed mysql to become popular.
- oblio 10y agoI kind of doubt it. The Windows port of PostgreSQL was kind of lacking for a long time (8.0, released in 2010, brought the first native Windows server version) and a large group of PHP developers were Windows developers.
- mpol 10y agoI don't remember Postgres having much traction around 2000 or before. Since there was "always" MySQL available, Postgres wasn't in need of development, for most people MySQL was sufficient. If MySQL had been less open, Postgres might have gotten momentum years earlier to fill that gap on the low web-end. I can imagine Postgres popularity in recent years is because people are replacing Oracle databases with Postgres, they are looking for a way out of that. Or even more, newer companies don't even look at starting with Oracle, but start on Postgres right away.