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by rsanheim 2182 days ago
Basecamp (and 37 Signals) has been a MySQL shop forever, so I'm sure they have a ton of operational experience with it. There is no reason for them to switch to Postgres at this point, for much of the same reasons a place like GitHub is still on MySQL.

Changing database engines with large, established apps has a _huge_ cost and is usually not worth it.