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I've been in a similar situation, a story I love to re-tell because it feels like a victory for open source. We asked Oracle for a quote for two replicated mys
by INTPenis 11y ago
I've been in a similar situation, a story I love to re-tell because it feels like a victory for open source.
We asked Oracle for a quote for two replicated mysql servers for HA. Because they were VMs we got a quote for 3 years that was 410,000 SEK (almost $50k). So we built our own replication solution with mariadb for free.
- davidgerard 11y agoIf you need support, there's nothing wrong with buying support, even quite expensive support. I'm sure Oracle would have provided the some of best MySQL support available. But yes, it's good to have the option of doing it yourself :-D (For our few services that run on MySQL, I'm really hanging out for MariaDB to make it into Debian and hence Ubuntu, which is what we run on live - a mix of 12.04 and 14.04. Oracle runs on our last two remaining Sun Niagara SPARC boxes. We will be killing our last Oracle this year.)