Winder in Helsinki

Award winning journalistm, Davey Winder has been visiting F-Secure in Helsinki to learn about all kinds of Malware including mobile phone viruses and trojans. Read more about this in the Jan 2007 edition of PCPro, available on your news stands now.

Pick a database - Any Database

Information week reports:

"Thirty percent of wireless developers rely on SQL Server as the central, server-based database from which a wireless application receives data, according to Evans Data."

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196604412

MySQL came in second place with 20% and Oracle 3rd with 16%. Usually for Web Development the open source favourite comes top of the list, back in October it was reported that 45% of web developers use MySQL.

So why would Microsoft beat MySQL for wireless developers?

The answer to this becomes more obvious if you think about who is producing these different services. At the moment the bulk of web development is done by small companies or individuals working for clients who also have smaller budgets and also smaller numbers of customers/end users.

Mobile applications are being typically written by larger corporations with lots of customers. This means that they need more reliable and powerful database systems.

I think this is just a perception issue rather than MySQL not being good enough, particularly with a recent report of MySQL now being capable of running on the latest 64bit platforms.