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by sharts 12 days ago
Internet Explorer 6 was the most widely deployed awesome piece of software. Those that hated it need to look a bit harder.
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Gud 12 days ago
It was not really “deployed” by a lot of people in the same sense.

It was forced upon most of us(not me, I used BeOS then Debian then FreeBSD).

I deployed phoenix.

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HighGoldstein 12 days ago
The reason SQLite is the most deployed is that it's used by Android.
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velcrovan 12 days ago
…and iOS, and Windows, and Mac OS, and Boeing, and Sony, and Firefox and Chrome and Safari…
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HighGoldstein 12 days ago
Yes, which goes in line with the argument that claiming that it's "the most deployed" as proof of superiority or suitability for any use case is equivalent to claiming the same for Internet Explorer. It's the most deployed because it's bundled in a lot of systems, not because people are purposefully using it as a DBMS.
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velcrovan 12 days ago
But it doesn't, because none of those systems are presenting SQLite to the user as something they should be using; they don't even make SQLite available to the user at all. Those systems all use SQLite internally to manage data.
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