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

[Aaron Kulkis]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:57 +0000, gib at juno.com wrote:
>> MySQL Creator: Oracle to Purchase Sun which Owns MySQL.
>> " . . . Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches".
>> http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html
> 
> Use PostgreSQL and forget about all this, mostly political and
> shamelessly marketroidish, stuff.
> 
> And get a better DB too.
> 
> <http://www.postgresql.org/>

I used to be a fence-sitter, but now I'm leaning to postgres.
MySQL was very attractive a couple of years ago, enough so that
I bought the 1000-ish page tutorial in printed form.

But then they pulled out one of the most useful sub-engines
(IIRC it was InnoDB) for both general use and my intended
purposes.

Selling to Sun made me leery.  And now this...I'm treating
MySQL as radioactive until Monty starts acting like an idiot
[With apologies to idiots everywhere].