OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21603/The_State_of_MySQL Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 20:51:51 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com RE: The State of MySQL http://www.osnews.com/thread?366701 http://www.osnews.com/thread?366701
Robust development from outside the Sun/MySQL sphere, new storage engines and the return of Monty are just some of the signs that MySQL is healthy, despite may reports to the contrary.


Considering said reports to the contrary were primarily based on the fact that:

1. Monty left.
2. Outside developers were feeling stonewalled by Sun/Oracle
3. No notable lateral movement in development had occured in a while (i.e. new storage engines)

It isnt terribly hard to make the case that things are looking much better. But that doesnt in any way invalidate the previous concerns - they were all completely valid at the time. I would argue that those very concerns are what spurred these changes in the first place.

I think saying "MySQL is healthy" is a little premature. It is certainly looking healthier than it did though. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (galvanash) Comments Link error http://www.osnews.com/thread?366708 http://www.osnews.com/thread?366708 The link posted is: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7342%22. This goes to a page not found error (at least within Opera). The correct link is http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7342. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anon9) Comments