[Cialug] Oracle buys Sun...

[David Champion]

chris wrote:
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> Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
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>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10223090-16.html
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>> Wonder if this is the death-knell for MySQL as we know it?  Perhaps
>> some group will fork the code...
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> There already are some active forks, this one in particular is one of the ones that I have found more interesting:
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> http://drizzle.org/wiki/About_Drizzle
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> In the last few years Sun has put some solid folks from the OSS community on the payroll and directed their attention to
> polishing up the SAMP stack. (Jeff Trawick and Nick Kew of Apache httpd fame to name two.)   I imagine Oracle will
> continue on the path and do something like IBM has done with Tomcat.  They will embrace it and offer a clear/clean/easy
> upgrade path to OracleDB should the user "outgrow" Mysql.  They can still sell lots of services around Mysql and
> services are where the real money is made anyway.
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> crr
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Drizzle is going for a very "light" approach, and might not be suitable 
for many of the applications that are using MySQL today - but it will 
probably be great for the cases where you don't need transactions or 
stored procedures. MariaDB is more of a continuation / fork of MySQL, 
and will have the advanced features that MySQL has been building on, 
plus some other new features.

-dc