[ale] $1B for MySQL !!!

[Jerry Yu]

what if the current core team plus the user base move towards the non_GPL
version?

On Jan 18, 2008 9:00 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Isn't MySQL GPL?  If so it can't "go away" can it?  Someone else can use
> the OSS stuff and continue on even if there is a commercial version
> can't they?
>
> FYI:  I found out over the summer from a friend who does development at
> the Weather Channel that not all their stuff is on MySQL - I think it is
> just the web related stuff.   It sounded like the teams that do that and
> the rest of the systems don't really interact much.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike
> Harrison
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:26 AM
> To: Michael B. Trausch
> Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] $1B for MySQL !!!
>
> > You forgot about PostgreSQL... :-)
>
> vacuum analyze.
>
> PostgreSQL is more of a real database engine ala Sybase, Oracle
> etc.. than MySQL, and takes a little more time and thought to work with.
> MySQL's power is it's simplicity for basic web-apps, it just happens
> to (currently, did not always) scale really really well.
>
> And PHP and MySQL just work so darn well together out of the box.
> I know it'll work with PostgreSQL, and I should probably try it again.
> Many moons ago I used Perl and PostgreSQL a lot, and it was "rocket
> science" getting them to talk to each other and Apache. Guess it just
> left
> a bad taste in my mouth.
>
> > to the other, especially for applications that do not use a database
> > abstraction layer of one form or another, and simply call the database
> > directly.
>
> Which I really, REALLY should be doing more of. I normally hate
> abstraction layers, one more layer of code for things to break in
> or troubleshoot, But it sure helps when the client says:
> We're using PostgreSQL, or DB2 or..
>
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