[LinuxUsers] Oracle to buy Sun...

[Brian Friday]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Jeff Lasman <jplists at nobaloney.net> wrote:
> On Monday 20 April 2009 11:22 am Brian Wrote:
>
>> - MySQL, it is more a brand name than it is a software package at this
>> moment. While of course MySQL has a huge install base 5.1+ is
>> considered beta software at best. Good reads regarding this are the
>> numerous outsider blogs and specifically Monty's blog.
>
> This has been discussed every which way but loose for a while now, and
> the fact is that many webhosting companies (maybe most) are running
> MySQL 5 without perceived problems.  Yes, in the enterprise community,
> the perceived issues with MySQL 5.1 are going to be a problem, but you
> don't really think Oracle is going to offer an enterprise version of
> MySQL to compete with Oracle, do you?

No I don't but as of the acquisition they currently do, welcome to
MySQL "Enterprise"
http://mysql.com/products/enterprise/. In fact as I recall MySQL has
always had a for pay version.

The issues in MySQL 5.1 are not just enterprise related and while I
don't take everyone's word as gold, when Monty posts what he did in
the link below I do tend to look at things more carefully.  Yes MySQL
5.1 is usable but the post below shows me some troubling trends in
their new company's (Sun) release strategy.

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/11/oops-we-did-it-again-mysql-51-released.html

Ultimately I think we will see more movement to the "forks" of "MySQL"
than further development in the MySQL community version for much
longer.  To date there are two new branches, Drizzle and MariaDB, and
as I said Sun's release plan for MySQL seems to have created more
problems than solutions.