_When we started on our journey of designing our SwitchCRM application that offered a fantastically intuitive user interface, delivered by a robust and resilient technical architecture, we eventually arrived at the technology crossroads of choosing a database.

Having spent 14 years working in an environment surrounded by Oracle technology, the natural inclination was to pick Oracle as a tried, tested and familiar option.  We defined in detail our database requirements and embarked on our research to establish whether there were other options out there.  To our great delight and surprise it was clear that MySQL was emerging as a very strong contender.