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

[David Lane]

MySQL was easy to pick up.  As a programmer I did not have the money or time to go to a full blown course ans certifacation.

I never had problems with on Windows or Linux. I even had to download the source for compliation on a vertion of linux that did not have it.  and all of that with out formal traing.

If Oracle changes MySQL in a way that makes it Not the great opensource resource that it is YES I will look for a new favorate Database.

And Write Oracle and tell them why. Other wise it is a worthless effort.

David C. Lane 




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From: Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 11:35:46 AM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Open source MySQL - MySQL Creator: Oracle to Purchase Sun which Owns M ySQL

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].
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