2010/1/4 Tibi Turbureanu <[email protected]>: > Monty vrea să răspundă întrebărilor noastre. Hai să tragem o linie la > ce am discutat până acum și să scriem în engleză câteva (max. 6) > întrebări scurte, dar incomode.
Tibi> Here are the community questions (Please don't repeat the FAQ's answers): Tibi> 1,2. On SaveMySQL site, you write that MySQL is functional, scalable and Tibi> credible, though, acording to Wikipedia[1], the very fundamental features: Tibi> transactions and referential integrity are supported by the InnoDB engine, Tibi> actively developed by Oracle in the past 4 years, while PostgreSQL fully Tibi> supports those features on its own. Tibi> 1. Then what else is to be saved but the MySQL brand? MySQL, under GPL, can be used freely by everyone that doesn't distribute MySQL. This means of course all inhouse use like Web, internal applications etc. It's in these applications that InnoDB is most important. Closed source applications that uses MySQL or closed source extensions to MySQL can be distributed with an MySQL version that doesn't include InnoDB; Most such applications works fine with PBXT or MyISAM. It's also much easier to create a replacement for InnoDB than for the whole of MySQL. Tibi> 2. Then wouldn't be Oracle a good owner of MySQL, if already owns and Tibi> sucessfully runs free DB software projects like InnoDB and BerkeleyDB? Those projects doesn't compete with Oracles main product, so they are not relevant comparisons. Note also that Oracle doesn't make any money on InnoDB. They mainly bought it to put pressure on MySQL Ab and stop us from growing (in which they did succeed; MySQL Ab lost a lot of customers because Oracle bought InnoDB). Tibi> 3. What do you personally win if this campaign successfully stops Oracle's Tibi> aquisition of MySQL=3F Is it true you want to make also proprietary fork(s) Tibi> of MySQL and/or make possible mixing it with proprietary software (so=20 Tibi> called „Eembedded solutions[2]”) like before under MySQL AB? I have only done Open Source/Free software for the last 15 years and intend to continue to do so. When MySQL management within Sun tried to add closed source modules to MySQL, it was I who lead the debate against this and was part in getting the management to take back the decision. I have also publicly said many times, including in my latest blog, that Monty Program Ab is only going to release Open Source code. We are not going to add any proprietary software and don't have any plans to do dual licensing. I think I have a good track record to back this claim up. Tibi> 4. You appear in the Advisory Board of CodePlex[3]. What are your relations Tibi> with Microsoft? I was asked by a friend to be part of CodePlex to see what Microsoft is up to with Open Source. I think it's a good idea to be on the inside as this way I can: - Ensure that Microsoft has honest intentions (if not, be very public about it) - If Microsoft really wants to contribute to Open Source, ensure they do it a way so that it really helps the Open Source community. So far my only interaction with CodePlex is by being on their email list (reading and giving suggestions) and been part of 2 phone calls. Regards, Monty _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lug.ro/mailman/listinfo/rlug
