I agree with Steve, I've had a couple of people speak with me about concerns of MySQL's new ownership, but I stand by the same reasons Steve does....MySQL will not be going anywhere, and if it does, someone'll just fork and keep it going under a new name.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Steve Kennedy <steve-aster...@gbnet.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:31:55PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > >> > change from mySQL to PostgreSQL. >> >> I love mySQL but am getting very concerned about i'ts new owners. >> >> Should I be able to move all my realtime stuff to PostgreSQL is it fully > [snippage and probably off topic] > > Why are you worried re the future of MySQL and it's new owners Oracle. > > a) MySQL is open source so anyone can take a fork and continue > development. > > b) Oracle own InnoDB already which is the main storage engine for > MySQL. > > c) Oracle dont have any low end DB products for start-ups etc. > Developer licenses may be free, but commercial use certainly isn't. > > d) MySQL is now a business division within Oracle and MySQL (.com) > makes money. > > e) Google have contributed a lot of code for MySQL v6, I'm sure they'd > take it on if Oracle in madness decided to drop it. > > f) I'm sure Oracle will push Oracle on Sun hardware/Solaris for high-end > DB platforms and optimise the two so the performance stats look great > and so they'll develop a migration platform so high-end MySQL users can > easily migrate to Oracle when the need arises. > > > Steve > > -- > NetTek Ltd UK mob +44 7775 755503 > UK +44 20 7993 2612 / US +1 310 857 7715 / Fax +44 20 7483 2455 > Skype/GoogleTalk/AIM/Gizmo/.Mac/Twitter/FriendFeed stevekennedyuk > Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com MSN st...@gbnet.net > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users