[General] Topics for next meetings

[Abdulaziz AL-Asfour]

Salamu Alaykom...

Thanks for pointing this out...

As I understood. MySQL AB offers GPL for those who want to develop GPL based
applications and a commercial license for those who want to develop a
commercial based application under MySQL.

But GPL allows GPL based software to communicate with commercial license
applications but not to be combined together in one package!

There is a gray area here !! in case you wanna use MySQL under GPL and still
use commercial based application to communicate with it....  It will violate
the MySQL licensing page "http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing" ..
but not the GPL !!!!

On the other hand, Postgre uses BSD licensing.... (Free but more flexible
with commercial usage)

Anyway, apart from the licensing issues, I think MySQL is widely used amount
Arabs and widely used with php applications and offer a study guide and a
certification (For those who are interested) and SQL language is basically
the same for all DBMS.

For those who are interested, lets vote for whether to use Postgre instead
of MySQL in the study plan OR continue with MySQL study plan and then have a
topic "Migrating from MySQL to Postgre".


MySQL Licensing:

   - http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/

Postgre Licensing:

   - http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence



On 1/1/07, Eng. Sabah Al-Sabah <sabah at techsys.net> wrote:
>
>  Hello All,
>
> A word of caution!
>
> During my visit to Linux World this year in Koln- Germany, I visited some
> open-source application developers looking for an ERP package, I noticed
> that they all use PostgresSQL, I asked them why are you not using MySQL?
> there answer was "Due to loicensing issues"!!, I said what licensing issues,
> I thought MySQL was free, they said, "Well not exactly"
>
> So I did some search and found this: http://www.ofb.biz/article.pl?sid=325
>
> Also, I was told that PostgresSQL has more feature than MySQL like stored
> procedures. Please see this comparison:
> http://monstera.man.poznan.pl/wiki/index.php/Mysql_vs_postgres
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> ============================
>
> Eng. Sabah Al-Sabah
>
> General Manager
>
> Technical Systems Est.
>
> sabah at techsys.net
>
> www.techsys.net
>
> ============================
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* general-bounces at oskw.org [mailto:general-bounces at oskw.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Abdulaziz AL-Asfour
> *Sent:* Monday, January 01, 2007 1:33 PM
> *To:* General at oskw.org
> *Subject:* [General] Topics for next meetings
>
> Salamu Alaykom and Eidkum Mubarak All...
>
> As we discussed in the last meeting, we suggested that we choose
> "technical topics" to discuss and practice each week. If you have any topics
> you want to discuss in the meetings, feel free to drop a topic with a
> guideline. We can of course discuss more than one main topic during the
> meeting. You can also suggest to adjust my study plan.
>
> My Suggestion topic is "MySQL 5" Database Management System (DBMS). I
> divided the study time among the month January 2007 according to the topics
> discussed. The goal is to improve Database/MySQL skills, prepare for "MySQL
> 5 Certifications", and develop projects based on PHP/MySQL.
>
> Please prepare your laptop with any Linux/Unix/BSD flavor and have your
> MySQL 5 packages ready (Or guidelines on how to install them)....
> I suggest Fedora 6 or Ubuntu 6.10 or a VMWare that has any of them.
>
> The suggested study materials are:
>
>    - "MySQL 5.0 Certification Study Guide" by Paul DuBois, Stefan Hinz,
>    and Carsten Pedersen
>       - Note: you can find it on torrent sites, emule, or I can give
>       you an electronic copy next meeting. please, if you like it buy it from
>       amazon or any book store :)... If anyone has an FTP or HTTP account, I can
>       also upload it.
>       - http://www.mysql.com website.
>
>
> Study Plan:
>
>    - 3 Jan 2007
>       - Introduction to DBMS and MySQL (PHP - Optional)
>       - Installing MySQL and phpMyAdmin (Zend Studio - Optional)
>       - Playing with some SQL commands.
>       - Discussing a guideline for studying MySQL 5.
>       - Discussing a PHP/MYSQL project plan/competitions to be done
>       by the end of Feb 2007.
>       - 10 Jan 2007
>       - Discussing MySQL Developer Exam I topics.
>       - 17 Jan 2007
>       - Discussing MySQL Developer Exam II topics.
>       - 24 Jan 2007
>       - Discussing MySQL DBA I Exam topics.
>       - 31 Jan 2007
>       - Discussing MySQL DBA II Exam topics.
>
> See you all next meeting inshallah.
>
>
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