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It seems pretty conspicuously absent, in fact. MySQL's best hope is that Sun throws it overboard before the acquisition completes; there's no way it will survi
by seldo 17y ago
It seems pretty conspicuously absent, in fact.
MySQL's best hope is that Sun throws it overboard before the acquisition completes; there's no way it will survive within Oracle -- it competes directly as a zero-cost alternative to Oracle's core products.
- gaius 17y agoWell, no, not at all. If you are an "enterprise" then you are paying $$$ for the "enterprise" version of MySQL. If you aren't, then you'd never buy Oracle anyway, you don't need it. At the end of the day MySQL is pretty irrelevant to Oracle's plans for Sun.
- mikedouglas 17y agoOracle would be crazy to give up MySQL. Controlling it, they can ensure it'll never compete with their high-end products, while taking the air out of the entry db market.
- jhancock 17y agopostgres works great and keeps getting better. Oracle and Sun are both irrelevant to most startups.