Comments on: Help Save MySQL

By: Matthew King

Matthew King — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:03:22 +0000

Ahh did any of you actually read the articles. Read this one. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/042364 please note item 6 on this list.

6. Increase spending on MySQL research and development. Oracle commits to make available appropriate funding for the MySQL continued development (GPL version and commercial version). During each of the next three years, Oracle will spend more on research and development (R&D) for the MySQL Global Business Unit than Sun spent in its most recent fiscal year (USD 24 million) preceding the closing of the transaction.

Please don’t post garbage based on assumptions. Its blind to not review the companies take over offerings first.

By: Jason Sjobeck

Jason Sjobeck — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:38:59 +0000

The loss of a truly “FOSS” sql database is a pity. A shame. Oracle does not even realize this. Their greed is myopic. They actually ought to leave it out there so that they take the best of the open source ideas, tricks, code, features, and then import those in to their commercial offerings. Killing mySQL will actual close the entire ecosystem, developers will not contribute, it will be a loss. If they were not so single-mindedly focuses on one thing, they would actually benefit from both ecosystems. They wont though. They will ruin it. It will be an enormous loss. I am sad about it. I guess we can all switch to postgres now. We have already started here & will increase our speed in doing so over the next months.

By: gembiz

gembiz — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:12:46 +0000

Scott,

The point is that MySQL is already a very stable and reliable piece of “kit” and in much of the small to medium sector it is of sufficient capacity and capability already. These businesses don’t need an Enterprise Solution with a billion bells and whistles because those sorts of databases are for a totally different market.

To carry your car analogy a bit further, these smaller businesses need a 2.5 ton van, not a containerised articluated 40 ton lorry. Some of us are worrying that the 2.5 tonner is going to be phased out but we can have a 40 tonner that’s so flexible that we can have it in any colour we like…

Cheers!

Brian

By: Scott Myers

Scott Myers — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:15:57 +0000

My personal opinion;

Oracle can and will produce the most reliable appliance platform(s) available on the market. These systems will further speed deployment (and growth) of MAMP, SAMP, LAMP and other cluster foundations. Removing the burden of solution creation from the owner is what we’re all about. Deploying mission critical application stack(s) on the most reliable cluster platform is what we do every day. This leaves the actual business creation team uncluttered and more clear to focus on what they do best, running and growing their own business!

Some people build cars and you expect your car to take you to your destination. We do the same thing with compute and storage clusters, the difference is, we do it a little faster……

scott.myers@sun.com
scott@petascalecomputing.com

By: gembiz

gembiz — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:52:16 +0000

I don’t generally have much use for the EU Commission, but it seems that, rather like software patents, they may be the last best hope

“Oracle had been adamant all the time about not proposing anything real and serious and has let an important legal deadline go by without doing what it should have done. As a consequence of that behavior, the European Commission and other regulators actually have a legal and moral basis to block the whole acquisition of Sun now.”

http://helpmysql.org/en/theissue/lastchance