Oracle Buys.....MySQL ??!
Let's meditate on this for a moment.
Oracle will own MySQL.
time to take the postgres plunge ? (all those who haven't as of yet).
the rare comment from Mike Bayer
Let's meditate on this for a moment.
Oracle will own MySQL.
time to take the postgres plunge ? (all those who haven't as of yet).
Florian:
I've been recommending anyone since half a decade not to use MySQL in favor of anything else (preferably postgres). This became again apparent when sun acquired MySQL and basically nobody knows anymore what MySQL to use. The aquisition of Sun by Oracle will certainly not change that much.
20 April 2009, 1:27 pmrgz:
Yes. It is.
20 April 2009, 2:54 pmWayne Witzel III:
All my green field development is using postgres for the last year or so. But I still have a lot of applications in the support cycle, so I won't be free of MySQL for some time. Will be interesting to see what comes of this.
20 April 2009, 3:21 pmRobert:
I see no reason to fear for MySQL. Oracle has a complete database stack now that it can market to a much broader audience. If they screw it up, MySQL is still open source and can be forked (and it has been already to a large degree by its original creator).
20 April 2009, 8:23 pmNicola Larosa:
This is just one more nail in the coffin, there were plenty of reason to discard MySQL already:
MySQL-PostgreSQL comparison http://www.teknico.net/devel/myvspg/index.en.html
(old, but historically relevant).
21 April 2009, 6:12 amMike Lewis:
It's been time to take the Postgres plunge for quite a while.
Keep in mind, Oracle already owned InnoDB [1] which is probably the only usable storage engine. (anybody using MyISAM in a production environment should be yelled at)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InnoDB#cite_note-0
5 May 2009, 2:43 pmCatherine Devlin:
Postgres rules MySQL drools, always has always will, BUT not because of this. I'm very confident Oracle will actually be good to MySQL. They're much more open-source-friendly than most people realize.
10 August 2009, 1:07 pmMuhammad Alkarouri:
Of course there is always the Firebird option. In fact, I have been using Firebird instead of MySQL for a long time now, specially as it used to be easier than Postgres (not sure now, haven't handled postgres since version 7) while having all standard database options rather than the broken mysql.
25 September 2009, 6:15 am