Re: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-05 Thread Bernard Devlin
I have to agree with Ruslan on this (but perhaps from a different perspective). Monty's call to arms just seems bizarre and under-handed. MySQL was never really free (unlike Postgres or Firebird or Sqlite). He sold MySQL to Sun and became very rich. Now he wants to claim that Oracle is a

Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Has anyone heard about this proposed acquisition of Sun by Oracle? I got an email from mo...@helpmysql.org wanting me to sign some petition to help keep mySQL open source. I'm not sure if this guy is crying Wolf, or if this is a real issue. Also, since On-rev uses mySQL, I want to ensure we are

Re: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 1/4/10 7:51 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Hi Bob, Well, this is wave of cry raised by author of mySQL some weeks ago. You can find site with his letter on few languages. And you can read comments of people to him on this. Many people say that they support him, But exists IMO adequate

RE: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Has anyone heard about this proposed acquisition of Sun by Oracle? I got an email from mo...@helpmysql.org wanting me to sign some petition to help keep mySQL open source. I'm not sure if this guy is crying Wolf, or if this is a real issue. Also, since On-rev uses mySQL, I want to ensure

Re: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
oic. I am wondering then how this is going to impact On-Rev, which offers mySQL support? I intended to write a multiuser application and host it on my On-Rev site, but I am wondering now if Runrev is going to be forced to charge users an extra fee to continue to host MySQL if Oracle ever

Re: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 1/4/10 10:53 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: oic. I am wondering then how this is going to impact On-Rev, which offers mySQL support? I intended to write a multiuser application and host it on my On-Rev site, but I am wondering now if Runrev is going to be forced to charge users an

Re: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: oic. I am wondering then how this is going to impact On-Rev, which offers mySQL support? On-rev also supports pgSQL out of the box. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___

Re: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread stephen barncard
There will be clones to run the same code before there will be a crisis. Your database will not stop working and the 'Language' will not go away. MySQL compatibility will be a buzzword. And anyway, there is also Valentina - many times faster and reasonable licensing. Perhaps ON-Rev should

RE: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Lynn Fredricks
oic. I am wondering then how this is going to impact On-Rev, which offers mySQL support? I intended to write a multiuser application and host it on my On-Rev site, but I am wondering now if Runrev is going to be forced to charge users an extra fee to continue to host MySQL if Oracle ever

Re: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 04.01.2010 at 12:53 Uhr -0800 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: oic. I am wondering then how this is going to impact On-Rev, which offers mySQL support? I intended to write a multiuser application and host it on my On-Rev site, but I am wondering now if Runrev is going to be forced to charge