[mdlug] Open source MySQL - MySQL Creator: Oracle to Purchase Sun which Owns M ySQL

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 06:02 -0800, David Lane wrote:
> I would agree that MySql has made a big dent in Oracle.

I don't.


> MySql changed the market

Nah.

> As one of the KEY open source resources it made build a data driven
> web site viable and ofcourse other projects too. 
> As a programmer I can develop a soloution with MySql with out an
> account line.  

And there are numerous other Open Source database with which you can do
the same thing.  There are even free no-support-required editions of
proprietary databases, including DB2, that you could use.