Time to Reappraise Our MySQL Posture
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| 2743again Aug 15, 2007 11:38 AM EDT |
The companies that I consult to are mostly ardent open source advocates, although they wouldn't probably put it that way. They have been through the IBM mainframe lockins, the Novell Netware lockin era, the Microsoft tax lockins, the Oracle price obscenities, and are just plain fed up with proprietary products and companies. It's *not* a matter of whether this or that database software is faster, if one has to sell one's firstborn to get that marginal performance "improvement". It *is* a matter of having alternatives and, as one person in the linux/open source community who has helped MySQL attain name recognition and position, it's time to take a close look at what MySQL and others are/will be doing, now that Linux is moving into top share of mind. Like the Mam*bos of the world, and "we all know who in X11 days", it's time to stop helping the MySQLs of the world who turn their back on those that helped them get to that cherished nirvana --- IPO Land! Instead, we should be turning our back on them and helping something like Postgres, a pure opensource database, displace MySQL as THE open source distribution database ... defacto standard. Yes, I'm cheesed off at how we have all been played for suckers by MySQL, And now it's time for all of us to do something about it. Come on, all you Novell whiners! |
| azerthoth Aug 15, 2007 11:56 AM EDT |
Quoting: Non-tarballed code will continue to be available through the MySQL BitKeeper repository under the GPL. and for another quote "And Then? " |
| softwarejanitor Aug 16, 2007 8:32 AM EDT |
2743again -- If you haven't already, try PostgreSQL, you might like it. It is especially more suitable for people who are trying to migrate from Oracle or DB2, because PostgreSQL works more similarly to those commercial products than does MySQL, for example in the way sequence generation works, the way that stored procedures and triggers work and in general SQL syntax. |
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