On Apr 29, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Gilbert M. Hale wrote:
> All I know is I am glad I tossed my hat into the PostgreSQL ring,
> although
> the Advantage SQL does look interesting. I just felt a dual license
> for
> MySQL left things too loose for my comfort. Lucky call on my
> part... Then
> again, perhaps Oracle will do good things for MySQL since free is
> better
> than not free. Oh, wait a minute, that may not be quite right...
> Never
> mind...
It's pretty cool, actually, to see the positive reaction resulting
from the Oracle purchase. There has been a renewed interest in a
project that was a fork of MySQL, Drizzle, ever since the news about
Oracle surfaced. In fact, Rackspace is hiring a couple of full-time
developers to contribute to Drizzle, since there are some internal
uses for a fast, lightweight database like that (we use PostgreSQL for
most of our internal stuff, though).
That's why open source is so important. Imagine if VFP were open
source: we could have someone like Christof head up a fork of the
Microsoft codebase to create a separate product that Microsoft
couldn't control. Development of new features and improvements would
only be limited by the enthusiasm of the user base.
What Oracle bought was the MySQL name and development team. They
didn't buy the code.
-- Ed Leafe
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