I work a lot with SQL Server 2000/2005. I’ve also worked with MySQL. Both have weak and strong points.

SQL Server is like the deep thinker, it’s a bit slower, but it can do some amazing queries and has some unique features that allow you to develop some extremely complex code.

MySQL on the other hand, it like the Speedy Gonzales of SQL. It’s raw SQL, lean, mean and fast. The downside though is that when it comes to very complex queries or some of the higher end features, you have to simply what you’re trying to do and down step it to some more basic SQL.

Tell that to Yahoo and Digg. We, like them, like our play language just fine. I’ve scaled PHP sites to serving in excess of 350,000,000 dynamic pageviews a day, that’s not something I feel like figuring out how to do with Ruby on Rails.

Thanks!

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http://www.rubyonrails.org/

http://www.turbogears.org/

http://plone.org/

http://www.djangoproject.com/

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There are many good choices, it’s time for the Internet to move on with a real language.

You’re right, it was a bit harsh. I take some of it back. There are some really good things that come out of Microsoft. But they also take a really long time and are often ‘too little, too late.’

When I think about all the really smart people I know who are at Microsoft I get frustrated thinking about how much more they could accomplish if they worked at a company that was able to move quickly.

I think John Roberts, our VP of Product, said it best when he explained one of his reasons for coming to work at OpenDNS: “It was time for me to put my shoulder into something where I could feel the organization move every time.”

A person either wants that in a job or doesn’t. Every person who works here wants that feeling.