Star Week in Review: Opera, MySQL, Kubuntu
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Sep 2009 21:52 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes This was a bit of a weird week for OSNews. Monday and Tuesday I was unable to reach OSNews and its related domains from home; we still don't know why, but the end result was that I could not work on OSNews, meaning very few items. For the rest, it was a very quiet and relaxed week, with little going on.
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RE: Comment by kaiwai
by ba1l on Mon 7th Sep 2009 14:57 UTC in reply to "Comment by kaiwai"
ba1l
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I wouldn't get concerned about MySQL. It'll be simply known as 'Oracle training wheels edition' where any new feature requests will be answered with a "we suggest you upgrade to Oracle" and only bug fixes will be focused on. It'll be used as a step ladder to get people into more expensive services so that the entry price into the Oracle eco system is low and over time they'll eventually push you up into more expensive products and services.


Unfortunately, I suspect that you might be right. After all, neither BerkleyDB nor InnoDB have been significantly updated by Oracle since they bought them.

Which is a shame, because the set of applications where MySQL is appropriate does not overlap at all with the set of applications that actually need Oracle, and you wouldn't want to use Oracle unless you actually needed it.

Oh well. It's not like there are no alternatives. PostgreSQL or Firebird, for example. Or Sqlite on the really low end (embedded applications). Or one of the inevitable forks that will occur should Oracle cease development of MySQL. Even something like HBase or HyperTable, if it's appropriate.

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