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Transactions are very important and under appreciated

  Eventually I'll add some exposition of my own. For now, I think that this
  exposition by someone from the Open ACS project does a nice job:

     http://openacs.org/why-not-mysql.html

  I think there is a huge ignorance about transactions, and this
  is unfortunate.  I'm amazed at the number
  of people with CS backgrounds who don't know what transactions
  are. Heck, I got an MS in software engineering (and took quite 
  a few higher-level cources) and I was exposed to transactions
  accidentally, because I happened to take an elective course.
  I bet that that a mjority of CS Phds have no idea what transactions
  are or why they are so important. Sigh.

  --Jim Fulton