It's all about open source, and it's all about FreeBSD.
And let me fucking tell you something, if you've ever had to deal with disaster recovery procedures on an Exchange or SQL Server database, you will learn to REALLY FUCKING APPRECIATE a system like MySQL in which "backing up the database" simply means copying all the files in your database's directory somewhere else, and "restoring the database" means copying them right back in.
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And let me fucking tell you something, if you've ever had to deal with disaster recovery procedures on an Exchange or SQL Server database, you will learn to REALLY FUCKING APPRECIATE a system like MySQL in which "backing up the database" simply means copying all the files in your database's directory somewhere else, and "restoring the database" means copying them right back in.
::sighs happily::