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One of the things that won't change immediately, but will change over the long term is the availability of people familiar with MySQL. With the cost structure
by alttag 14y ago
One of the things that won't change immediately, but will change over the long term is the availability of people familiar with MySQL.
With the cost structure described in the article, MySQL will start disappearing from university database courses. I used it when I taught databases. (It's bad enough that some of them use Access, but at least MySQL was supported for most.) This is double trouble, as MySQL Workbench was an introductory tool for many database features.
This is the reason (IMNSHO) Apple spent so much money in the 90s putting their software in schools, and why Microsoft has done the same this century at the university level. Software is a "gateway drug", and Oracle may be killing that.
- taligent 14y agoThe article is 2 years old and was as wrong then as it is now. MySQL, OpenOffice, Java, Glassfish are all still as free and open as they've always been.
- icebraining 14y agoThis[1] article is brand new, though. [1]: http://blog.mariadb.org/disappearing-test-cases/ http://blog.mariadb.org/disappearing-test-cases/
- larrys 14y ago"This is the reason (IMNSHO) Apple spent so much money in the 90s putting their software in schools" I've known that to be the case as well. I was able to find this to back up the point that you make: http://www.marketingapple.com/ http://www.marketingapple.com/ "In the late 1980s, shortly after Steve launched the original Macintosh he faced a similar problem to the one we were facing ten years later. Very few developers were interested in building software for a platform that was much smaller than the standard at the time (in 1987 it was MS-DOS, in 1997 it was Windows). Steve’s answer was simple: encourage higher education institutions to build software for the platform and hook students on the Macintosh, which they would later bring to their jobs after graduation. The AUC worked exceedingly well then, and so I suggested to Steve that we rebuild a similar program, and he emphatically agreed."
- gaius 14y agoCounterpoint: Acorn.