[TriLUG] This is not good

Neil L. Little nllittle at embarqmail.com
Tue Apr 21 12:10:00 EDT 2009


Well for one thing it happened last year and its called Drizzle.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL

Shawn Hartsock wrote:
> What would the rules of a fork like that be? Could they still call it
> MySQL? In other words do we still get to call it the LAMP stack when
> MySQL goes away? Do we fork MySQL and give it an 'M' name like
> MackerelQL?
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Neil L. Little
> <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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>> I thought that I read that the open source MySQL forked when it was bought
>> by Sun.
>>
>> 73,
>> Neil, WA4AZL
>>
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>> Christopher L Merrill wrote:
>>     
>>> mgmonza wrote:
>>>       
>>>> That leaves PostgreSql as the only free SQL database, I believe. It's
>>>>         
>>> Ignoring the plethora of free databases, don't ya think you're jumping
>>> the gun a little?
>>>
>>> First, it's open-source...and thus not easy to kill. Worst case, no more
>>> funding for development - which means the community will have to continue
>>> development.
>>>
>>> Second, Oracle didn't buy MySql, they bought Sun - MySql is along for the
>>> ride. Oracle wanted hardware, Solaris and Java. I wouldn't be surprised
>>> if they put MySql up for sale.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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