Well, what do you know ...

[unixronin]

It appears that fears over how Oracle might treat MySQL may have been not only misplaced, but directly wrong.  C|Net is reporting that far from treating MySQL as a red-headed stepchild and deprecating it in favor of its own products, Oracle is actually increasing budget and engineering resources allocated to MySQL development, as well as sharing engineering know-how from its eponymous flagship product with MySQL .  In fact, Oracle sees MySQL as a complementary product to its Oracle DB that can be aimed directly at MSSQL.

I was one of the doubters.  On the strength of current evidence, I stand corrected.

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[mazianni.livejournal.com]

MySQL will be more like Oracle!

[unix-jedi.livejournal.com]

I went to a Oracle dog and pony show recently, and they were talking about that in the context of some other things.

They talked about meeting with this big CIO from a huge company, who told them he'd laid down the law, _no_ mysql anywhere, they were an Oracle shop.

And then he admitted he had to reverse that, because all the new hires came in knowing mysql, they were using it all over the place in dev and small stuff, and only moving it to the Oracle backend when it was going production...


I think Oracle is really, for now, hitting all the right notes.

We'll see what the tune looks like in 3 or so months, when we get our Sun hardware support quotes.....