I don't believe that MySQL stop its existence of being opensource. MySQL is probably the largest opensource projects that is used in almost everything.
Don't think that'll happen, and if it does, there's another opensource project ready to take MySQL place and don't think oracle wants to lose that. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Reindl Harald > Sent: segunda-feira, 16 de Setembro de 2013 22:45 > To: Mailing-List dbmail > Subject: [Dbmail] > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migrat > ion/ > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migration/ > interesting for the ones using MySQL as backend > > *currently* keep your fingers from MaraDB in conext of DBMail there is > a major bug which is fixed and will be in 5.5.33 release affecting > *any* release ever happend, but after that keep in mind that nearly any > major linux-distribution is switching and sooner or later Oracle MySQL > become meaningless as any opensource project Orcale tocuhed is dying > > why not use MariaDB now: > https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4978 > > as far as i can say the bug is really fixed, but let us wait for the > 5.5.33 realease and confirm it by unit-tests > > special thanks to Paul providing a predictable test-case! > _______________________________ > > BTW - do we have any number of the DBMail userbase? > > currently it feels like a niche in mail-systems but looking at what > Paul made of it with 3.0/3.1 i never felt more confirmed that my > decision to use it 2009 for my first production mail-system and build > a eco-system around it than now > > honestly i love this piece of software for a lot of reasons > _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
