> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Geoghegan > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 8:23 PM > To: Andrew Lardinois > Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Save MySQL? HA > > Andrew, > > I don't think it's becoming of the Postgres community to gloat about > this. Your contention that MySQL will "get flushed down the drain" > sounds almost as misguided as Monty's contention that Oracle will > divest in, and ultimately somehow "kill" MySQL as a means of cornering > the RDBMS market. > > The reason that MySQL can boast having so many installs is because it > is used in shared hosting shops around the world. I really strongly > doubt that Oracle are entertaining the idea of moving those sorts of > MySQL users (i.e. the majority) over to Oracle database - they want to > find a way to extract money from them, if that's possible. They > certainly won't have a monopoly on supporting MySQL that they can use > as leverage. Even if Oracle *could* somehow kill MySQL, I think it's > extremely unlikely that they'd be the beneficiary, and they know it. I > say this as someone who is largely indifferent to what happens to > MySQL, beyond the ramifications for PostgreSQL. I suspect that Oracle could be interested in collection of revenue from MySQL users who are using it commercially without a license in violation of the current license agreement for MySQL. (Commercial use of MySQL without paying a license fee requires that projects using the database are also GPL, IIRC). Just a wild guess, of course. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
