Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Chaney
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: I normally do not forward material to this list, but this is important enough to do so. I thought I post this link http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html in case anyone isn't aware of this yet

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-14 Thread Greg Donald
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Michael Chaney mdcha...@michaelchaney.com wrote: Because of the GPL, Oracle may own the copyrights but they'll have no control.  It doesn't matter.  As others have said below, MySQL users are better served with Postgres, anyway, maybe this is another good

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Chaney
If you look through the archives, and in fact the internet, you'll find countless why is postgres better than mysql essays. You'll even find a few clueless why mysql is better than everything essays, which can be safely ignored. For me, the bottom line is that postgres was developed from the

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-13 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Howard Coles dhcol...@gmail.com wrote: It's better than MS owning it, which is what has strongly been hinted at from Redmond. If a fork were to be made right this second of it, would oracle really have the power to force that fork to cease and desist? If so,

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-13 Thread Tim Jackson
More reasons to use Postgres. -- Tim On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: I normally do not forward material to this list, but this is important enough to do so. I thought I post this link http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-13 Thread Don Delp
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Tim Jackson jackson@gmail.com wrote: More reasons to use Postgres. -- Tim Care to list some of the other reasons? On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: I normally do not forward material to this list, but this is