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phuegoon Ask YC: Would YC.Newsers try a web service that works only on IE?

If it didn't support any browser than IE, I'd pass. Those guys are digging themselves a hole if it is dependant on IE centric code from day one.

phuegoon Which database should my startup use?

PostgresQL. It scales very well in my opinion, although I have yet to get to Face Book sized numbers :-)

I second all the 'has real features and is more reliable' comments that precede this one; I add to those my number one favourite. I can develop on Win32 and deploy on Linux and apply backups, schema changes, what have you from one to the other without any pain at all. I started with MySQL but simply could not achieve the above. YMMV naturally.