Star Interview with MySQL's Alex Roedling
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Jun 2004 21:11 UTC
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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re: MySQl in 2005
by iain_peters on Fri 18th Jun 2004 07:05 UTC

MySQL became the simple DB for most of the websites when the DOTCOM took off initially because you didn't need stored procedures etc to run a simple website. It you did then you would have gone with PostgreSQL or similar. Its like with a lot of people, they wont change something they are comfortable with using.
Release 4.x will be the database for those who don't want/need the new features in 5.0
5.0 is a development tree according to their website so it being developed in parallel with 4.1, production release is possibly LATE 2005 so thats still at least another year development and testing.