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For SQL server, AWS can save their customers money by cutting license cost (to MS). MySQL is already free so I don’t see how they can benefit from such a projec

For SQL server, AWS can save their customers money by cutting license cost (to MS). MySQL is already free so I don’t see how they can benefit from such a project.

etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
I agree, but there might be a creative way to do it that increases customer happiness and still is a decent business.
bbatha 6y ago
They can go one better — they can fork the parsers out of both projects and run it against a common query planner/storage engine (aurora).
ksec 6y ago
>don’t see how they can benefit from such a project I thought there were bad blood between Oracle and Amazon?
- jen20 6y ago
  In that case you'd expect to see it for Oracle proper instead of MySQL first, no?
  - rj0049 6y ago
    The Oracle wire protocol contains a (copyrighted) haiku, so no one can reverse-engineer the Oracle wire protocol without infringing on Oracle's copyright.
jcriddle4 6y ago
If you have several thousand stored procs and triggers then having to not rewrite all of that is actually likely over a million in savings.