On 8 April 2011 16:01, Oliver Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > last week I was at the fossgis conference and had the opportunity to > talk to someone from postgresql. Actually she was working for quite > some time at mysql/sun/oracle and did work there on postgresql as well > as mysql. > > Her opinion is, that mysql isn't dying, it's already dead. (After all, > what would you expect from someone from postgres?) She told me, that > at the time, she left Oracle, from the 400 people working on mysql > there, just 90 were still there with more of them leaving. > Her opinion is, that the future of mysql is Monty's maridb project. > > So I'd like to ask you, what you think, we should do? > - package mariadb as an alternative for mysql > - package mariadb nd drop mysql or > - stay with mysql and not package mariadb at all at least for the time > being > > By the way, if any of my words reads a bi peculiar, the "a" key on my > keyboard isn't working all the time, so try adding an "a" while you > read it :D > > Oliver >
About option 2, can't be dropped at the moment, as e.g. Amarok requires it. -- Ahmad Samir
