Recent article on slashdot ----
This is not meant to be a flame war so please don't pollute my post with such comments. I am wondering what the group thinks about this. --- We (my company) have spent a lot of time an money recently getting our applications geared up for a major shift away from two other database systems to mysql. Having read this article today I got a sick feeling in my stomach that maybe we are making the wrong move. I am not sure I completely understand whats going to happen but it sounds like new features will be developed in a non open source fashion (backup etc). Couple of reference points: http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/04/14/just-announced-mysql-to-launch-new-features-only-in-mysql-enterprise/ Read the comment by Marten Mickos (third comment down from top) http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/04/15/anthropology-sun-studies-mysql/ Seems very odd that Sun has recently taken the stand that open source is good (Java) but then does this with some features of MySql. -- grant /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
