Well I agree with ~sos~ as far as maintaining compatibility with legacy systems is concerned, but if we look at the current context, the thread starter I do not think is dealing with such critical systems and sounds more like a beginner to Java, so its got to be Ignorance

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<EDIT> @Peter Budo's post ... didn't see it, damn I should learn to refresh my pages more often

And yes I agree Small and Mid-Size firms prefer going for MySQL, an example is the firm which employs me has got 70% its critical data in MySQL DBs.
Last edited by stephen84s; Oct 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 am.