MySQL Surveys
InformationWeek has articles about two interesting MySQL surveys.
A survey at last month’s 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo revealed IT specialists’s MySQL wish-list: improved scalability (33%), easier maintenance (23%), increased availability (17%), more throughput (15%). And over 70% would rather have a simple out-of-the-box application rather than custom solutions.
A survey last winter by Evans Data of 517 companies revealed which databases their developers use (obviously, they could pick more than one): Microsoft SQL (61%), MySQL (40%), Microsoft Access (38%), Oracle 10g (22%), Oracle 9i (20%). MySQL’s share rose 8 points from 32% the previous year.
