Star Interview with MySQL's Alex Roedling
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Original OSNews Interviews Today we features a mini-Q&A with Alex Roedling, MySQL's Senior Product Manager, about all things MySQL, the competition, technology, licensing and more.
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by Another matthew on Fri 18th Jun 2004 01:37 UTC

(and if you're looking for an equivalent to phpMyAdmin, try PhpPgAdmin)

How can they grant exemptions to PHP, I thought that part of the LGPL was that rights can be taken away? Do they just say "you can use it"?

Before this MySQL licencing guff I didn't consider the user benefits of choosing OSS software with many authors. It'll be one of my considerations in the future. MySQL changed the conditions, and people were surprised. It's not like nothing happened.

IMO there are several new things that MySQL/Postgres should work on. XML datatypes is an obvious thing, for example, storing a gig of xml and being able to extract a node as part of the query. The coming overlap between newer filesystems (ReiserFS, WinFS) and databases will be interesting to see.

"We take a customer focused approach to development regardless of who our competitors are"

Heh. The whole answer to question 7 is pretty funny. I wonder if there should have been more consideration of the audience... it's Osnews.com you're responding to, not CNet ;)