Mark,
The reason you see emotion is that there have been some
egregious claims by some MySQL supporters, claims that
sometimes insulted others, but most importantly claims that
greatly misled people like you who are just trying to find out the
facts.
What is particularly disturbing is how these claims continue to
be made even though many explanations have been published
to prove them wrong. I've gone to big conferences where people
pay serious money to sit through a "MySQL Transactions
Tutorial" and are fed completely incorrect information about what
it means to be ACID-compliant, what it means to do reliable data
storage, etc...
For people who care about the integrity of computer scientists in
industry, it's very disheartening.
That said, we'll continue to try to provide "just the facts" on
OpenACS.org, and hopefully you can forgive the emotional
exuberance. Thanks for reminding us that the facts are more
important, though.
