Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Lussier

Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes:

 On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:

 That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
 both MySql and PHP.
 
 --
 Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
 databases being accessed by really bad PHP code.

 ...because having close to 1 million {PostgreSQL, Interbase, CouchDB,
 SQLite} databases being accessed by really bad {Java, Python, Ruby, C++,
 assembler, shell} code would be so much better.

Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
   {Microsoft, Oracle, IBM} guy: Having 1 million {MS-SQL, Oracle, DB2}
 databases being accessed by really bad {C#, PL/SQL, PL/I} code would
 of course be better!

Exactly! :)

I'm glad my post was taken with exactly the intent in which
it was meant... Of course, Ben, et al, know me entirely too well to take
anything I say in such a vain without the largest grain salt available
:)

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Lussier
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:

 On the other hand, I wonder how many government installations are
 running MySQL at this pointnot that it would or should influence
 anything.

Most MediaWiki installs use MySql by default.
Most WordPress installs use MySql by default.
Most Joomla installs use MySql by default.

And, sadly, almost all FOSS software that requires a back-end database
turns to MySql as it's default.

There is a lot of government use of said software.  MySql isn't going
anywhere anytime soon, and based on the fact that Oracle has kept
BerkeleyDB alive and well since they bought Sleepycat, I have no reason
to believe they'll do anything bad to MySql.

That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
both MySql and PHP.

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:

.

 That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
 both MySql and PHP.
 
 --
 Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
 databases being accessed by really bad PHP code.

...because having close to 1 million {PostgreSQL, Interbase, CouchDB,
SQLite} databases being accessed by really bad {Java, Python, Ruby, C++,
assembler, shell} code would be so much better.

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info wrote:
 Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
 databases being accessed by really bad PHP code.

 ...because having close to 1 million {PostgreSQL, Interbase, CouchDB,
 SQLite} databases being accessed by really bad {Java, Python, Ruby, C++,
 assembler, shell} code would be so much better.

  {Microsoft, Oracle, IBM} guy: Having 1 million {MS-SQL, Oracle, DB2}
databases being accessed by really bad {C#, PL/SQL, PL/I} code would
of course be better!

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes:

 On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
 
  That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
  both MySql and PHP.
  
  --
  Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
  databases being accessed by really bad PHP code.
 
 ...because having close to 1 million {PostgreSQL, Interbase, CouchDB,
 SQLite} databases being accessed by really bad {Java, Python, Ruby, C++,
 assembler, shell} code would be so much better.

(:flame
  Well, `bad' is not necessarily as *ingrained* into those
   other languages (or DBs) or their cultures)

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:03 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: 
 Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes:
 
  On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
  
   That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
   both MySql and PHP.
   
   --
   Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
   databases being accessed by really bad PHP code.
  
  ...because having close to 1 million {PostgreSQL, Interbase, CouchDB,
  SQLite} databases being accessed by really bad {Java, Python, Ruby, C++,
  assembler, shell} code would be so much better.
 
 (:flame
   Well, `bad' is not necessarily as *ingrained* into those
other languages (or DBs) or their cultures)
 

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
 (:flame
  Well, `bad' is not necessarily as *ingrained* into those
   other languages (or DBs) or their cultures)

  Anyone who blames bad code on the language has a far bigger problem
than the language they're using.

(Since we're inciting to riot.)

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread G Rundlett
While we're debating which language is best, I thought I'd share this
pictorial argument:
http://www.bootup.io/img/auximg/developers-as-seen-by.jpg

plus, an update for haskell
http://i.imgur.com/hF6mS.jpg

update for C# / .net
http://jakemcgraw.com/imgs/langs.jpg

Greg Rundlett

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Ted Roche
On 01/08/2010 05:21 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
 Anyone who blames bad code on the language has a far bigger problem
 than the language they're using.

 (Since we're inciting to riot.)


Yeah, no sense throwing rationality into a good flamefest.

A wise man told me long ago, It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Drew Van Zandt
It's a poor craftsman who blames *only* his tools, without trying to find
better ones.  It's no better for a craftsman to ignore the effects a tool
has on the product.

I have yet to find a hardware design toolchain that isn't maddening in at
least half a hundred ways.  Even the free / open source ones are filled with
angry bees.

I may actually try to do something about that, though it's a daunting
task...

--DTVZ

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:

 On 01/08/2010 05:21 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
  Anyone who blames bad code on the language has a far bigger problem
  than the language they're using.
 
  (Since we're inciting to riot.)
 

 Yeah, no sense throwing rationality into a good flamefest.

 A wise man told me long ago, It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
 Could it be the community hasn't stood up because you have to assign
 copyright to MySQL/Sun/Oracle, and people don't like giving their work
 to a company to run their business without compensation.

  What, you don't like being an unpaid employee of MySQL?

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
 Could it be the community hasn't stood up because you have to assign
 copyright to MySQL/Sun/Oracle, and people don't like giving their work
 to a company to run their business without compensation.

  What, you don't like being an unpaid employee of MySQL?

Seems that no one else does either.  Amazing how Red Hat can get all
those folks to contribute, but MySQL can't.  Oh, right - Red Hat GPLs
their code, and doesn't (as far as I know) require you to assign
copyright to them.  Amazing how people respond when they feel they're
being treated fairly.

jeff

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
 Seems that no one else does either.  Amazing how Red Hat can get all
 those folks to contribute, but MySQL can't.  Oh, right - Red Hat GPLs
 their code, and doesn't (as far as I know) require you to assign
 copyright to them.  Amazing how people respond when they feel they're
 being treated fairly.

  Woah there nelly.  RedHat was just as bad in some cases.  Take a
look at the eCos situation from several years ago, specifically, the
'Red Hat eCos Public License'.

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
  Woah there nelly.  RedHat was just as bad in some cases.  Take a
 look at the eCos situation from several years ago, specifically, the
 'Red Hat eCos Public License'.

  Yah, and how'd that work out for them?

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-05 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 01/01/2010 11:19 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
 Passing on this email. I'd be interested in your opinions of the issues
 raised.

So Monty want the EU to *force* Oracle to compete against MySQL?

Didn't he sell-out already?

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-05 Thread Jeffry Smith
What strikes me is his apparent non-belief in Open Source.  Basically,
he's arguing that you need to force the disgorgement to protect the
current proprietary MySQL clients, and they're needed for continuing
development, because the Open Source community hasn't/won't stood up
to support MySQL.  IAW, without proprietary development, the GPL
version would die.

Could it be the community hasn't stood up because you have to assign
copyright to MySQL/Sun/Oracle, and people don't like giving their work
to a company to run their business without compensation.

Maybe if the dropped the proprietary version, and dropped the
copyright assignment, they'd find a lot of people willing to help.

jeff
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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-04 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:

 It is a sad situation, but one that happens every once in a while, and
 particularly when a profit-making company heads up a FOSS project.

 In 2008 Sun bought MySQL for 1 Billion dollars, 800 million in cash and
 200 million in options.  Someone got a lot of money, and quite a few
 people probably continued to pull a good salary working for Sun, so
 Sun's stockholders made a real investment in MySQL, even though it was a
 GPLed product and could have been forked at any time.


Sun benefited from MySQL also.  When sales went in to sell support, they
found the customer was already using it.  Sun didn't have to convince them
to switch products.  This is a good thing for any company looking to
fund/buy an open source product.


 Berkeley DB was an embedded Open Source project maintained by a company
 called Sleepycat Software and was bought by Oracle.  They still maintain
 it as FOSS and sell support.


An **lots** of products use it.  I'm thinking sqlite, Sun's LDAP use it or a
varient.

Granted, Oracle markets and pushes its own database engine, but what
 would have happened if Sun had simply went bankrupt and the intellectual
 property just disappeared?  It happened to a lot of technologies from
 DEC when Compaq took over.


I'm still supporting a Tru64 system.  Phased out in favor of HP-UX on
itanium.  To be replaced with Linux on itanium *sigh*.

I remember trying the binary translator for SunOS to OSF/1 back in the day.
It was very nice.  I suspect there will be a market for something like that
for Intel Windows or Windows CE to ARM Linux in the coming years.


 On the other hand, I wonder how many government installations are
 running MySQL at this pointnot that it would or should influence
 anything.


And more importantly, how many are paying for support.  Oracle won't  want
to walk away from that revenue and it also help the OSS community.
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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote:
 No, but its a sign of developer interest and activity.  Sqlite and postgres
 have Py3 support, MySQL does not.

  That doesn't equal MySQL is stagnant.  Perhaps there's simply not
much interest in MySQL within the Python community.  MySQL does have a
reputation of being popular with the PHP crowd; maybe that's where the
interest lies.

-- Ben

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-04 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 10:57 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote:
  No, but its a sign of developer interest and activity.  Sqlite and postgres
  have Py3 support, MySQL does not.
 
   That doesn't equal MySQL is stagnant.  Perhaps there's simply not
 much interest in MySQL within the Python community.  MySQL does have a
 reputation of being popular with the PHP crowd; maybe that's where the
 interest lies.
 
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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
 Passing on this email. I'd be interested in your opinions of the issues
 raised.

  MySQL is GPL.  Oracle can do whatever they want, but the code itself
has already been freed (as in freedom).  Oracle can't put that genie
back in the bottle.  The most they can do is force the community to
completely fork the project, thereby relinquishing whatever influence
they might otherwise have.

  Turning the cynicism dial up to 11, I'd say what Monty is really
afraid of is that if Oracle shuts down what used to be MySQL, Inc.,
he would be out of a job, and he might lose stature in the community.
The community might dethrone him.  Right now he's more-or-less in
charge, and his company has a wonderful marketing tool, in that the
name of the project is also the name of his company.  Any corporate
fork would need to do much more marketing.  And Oracle's marketing
department is doubtless much better funded.

  There are alternative scenarios that don't involve rethinking the
Widenius family budget.  People who choose MySQL generally are doing
so because it's not owned and controlled  by a big company who demands
big payments -- in other words, because it's not Oracle, Microsoft,
IBM, etc.  They're unlikely to start handing Larry Ellison bags of
cash just because Oracle now owns the MySQL trademark.  Widenius could
capitalize on that, open up a new shop selling support, services, and
consulting, similar to what he does now.  Of course, he wouldn't own
the copyrights, so he couldn't sell proprietary licenses on the side,
and he's have to compete on his merits only, without the name.  Too
bad, so sad.  But then, it seems to work out okay for Red Hat.

  Welcome to the Free Software never-going-out-of-business sale,
available at an FTP site near you! (origin unclear)

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote:
 We have PostgreSQL, which has a much healthier development community and Py3
 support already.

  Shocking though this may be to some, Python support is not
*everyone's* most critical feature.

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-01 Thread Arc Riley
No, but its a sign of developer interest and activity.  Sqlite and postgres
have Py3 support, MySQL does not.

On Jan 1, 2010 2:43 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote:  We
have PostgreSQL, which h...
 Shocking though this may be to some, Python support is not
*everyone's* most critical feature.

-- Ben

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
It is a sad situation, but one that happens every once in a while, and
particularly when a profit-making company heads up a FOSS project.

In 2008 Sun bought MySQL for 1 Billion dollars, 800 million in cash and
200 million in options.  Someone got a lot of money, and quite a few
people probably continued to pull a good salary working for Sun, so
Sun's stockholders made a real investment in MySQL, even though it was a
GPLed product and could have been forked at any time.

And we should not overlook the effort of forking the code.  Yes, the
code itself is GPLed (and MySQL did a good job of keeping the GPLed
version fairly cheek-to-cheek with the features of the commercial
version), but there is a lot of IP in the behind-the-scenes code and set
up of testing tools, building tools, etc. that would have to be
duplicated.

And as Ben pointed out, the name, brand, etc. has a lot of worth.  If
these were not true, then Sun would not have spent 1 Billion dollars to
buy MySQL.

Now Sun has been sold to Oracle.  The argument is that Oracle might kill
off MySQL or simply let it languish.  Unfortunately for the MySQL folks
Oracle does not have a history of doing this.  In 1994 they bought Rdb
from Digital, moved the engineering people to another building close by
Digital's Spitbrook Rd facility, and as late as 2008 was still updating
and improving Rdb.  Yes, they dropped support for Rdb on Tru64 Unix, but
that is mostly because Tru64 disappeared.  AFAIK Oracle is still
supporting it on OpenVMS.

Berkeley DB was an embedded Open Source project maintained by a company
called Sleepycat Software and was bought by Oracle.  They still maintain
it as FOSS and sell support.

Granted, Oracle markets and pushes its own database engine, but what
would have happened if Sun had simply went bankrupt and the intellectual
property just disappeared?  It happened to a lot of technologies from
DEC when Compaq took over.

Yes, Oracle is a dominant database company, but there are other
databases out there that are FOSS which people could use:

o PostgreSQL
o Firebird

and some interesting ones coming out:

o MongoDB
o CouchDB

and there are other commercial database companies (Microsoft SQL, IBM's
DB2 anyone?) so the government might be loath to intervene under
anti-trust laws.

The petition is reasonably written, with reasonable alternatives.  I
just think that forcing Oracle to sell off something that Sun was
willing to pay 1 Billion dollars for just a year earlier on the premise
that Oracle would not manage it well is probably something that will not
fly.

On the other hand, I wonder how many government installations are
running MySQL at this pointnot that it would or should influence
anything.

md

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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-01 Thread Shawn O'Shea
The feelings on the Oracle acquisition seem quite split in the open source
community. Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center wrote an opinion
to the European Commission in favor of the acquisition [1] and Pamela Jones
of Groklaw has written a few articles about the merger in support including
one specifically addressing Moglen's letter [2].

At work, we were becoming concerned about MySQL as the community was already
becoming fragmented prior to Oracle's arrival on the scene. In addition to
the official Sun MySQL builds, there are enhanced builds with commercial
support from Percona [3] and OurDelta [4]. OurDelta is from former MySQL
employees. Monty Widenius himself, has forked MySQL as well as part of the
MariaDB project [5]. And there's the cloud geared fork/refactor called
Drizzle [6].

Monty also challenged Oracle on stewardship of MySQL and they responded that
they would keep MySQL GPLed. [discussion at 7]. maddog has already commented
in this thread on some Oracle acquisitions that have been kept in good faith
by Oracle. I think another important one to mention is InnoDB, the popular
transactional database engine that comes with MySQL. InnoDB is designed and
maintained by Innobase Oy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle [8] (acquired
in October 2005).

I'm no big fan of Oracle, but MySQL has enough issues and community
splintering. I think this fight over the Oracle acquisition does nothing but
continue to hurt MySQL. I also think Oracle has shown enough good faith in
past acquisitions that MySQL will be ok in their ownership. Besides, there's
always Postgresql [9]. :)

-Shawn

[1]
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2009/dec/04/software-freedom-law-center-submits-opinion-oracle/
[2] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091204095942328
[3] http://www.percona.com/
[4] http://ourdelta.org/
[5] http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB
[6] http://drizzle.org/
[7]
http://thecommandline.net/2009/12/14/montys-challenge-to-oracle-over-mysql-stewardship-and-their-response/
[8] http://www.innodb.com/
[9] http://www.postgresql.org/

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:

  Passing on this email. I'd be interested in your opinions of the issues
 raised.

  Hi!

 I am contacting you because you have in the past shown interest in
 MySQL and from that I assume you are interested in the future
 well-being of MySQL.

 Now you have a unique opportunity to make a difference.  By signing
 the petition at http://www.helpmysql.org you can help affect the
 future of MySQL as an Open Source database.

 You can find more information of this on my latest blog post 
 at:http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html

 Help us spread the world about this petition!http://www.helpmysql.org is 
 available in 18 languages and every vote
 is important, independent of from where in the world it comes!
 If you know people that are using MySQL, please contact them and
 ensure they also sign the petition!

 Regards,
 Monty
 Creator of MySQL

 PS: If you already have signed the petition or know about it, sorry for
 reminding you about this! Because of the importance of this issue,
 I am trying to contact every person that I have ever communicated
 with regarding MySQL.


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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-01 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 11:43 -0500, Arc Riley wrote:
 We have PostgreSQL, which has a much healthier development community
 and Py3 support already.
 
 The MySQL community is already fractured from the Sun purchase, isn't
 it a little late to save it?

Sun did not do too much harm.  MySQL fills a niche between sqlite and
postgresql.  Administration is very simple.  Loosely coupled replication
is built in.  Some of us may be locked into the last stable release for
a while depending upon events.


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