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MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the larry-scoffs dept.

geekinexile writes: "Bloomberg is running a story on the growth of MySQL as an alternative to the big commercial database systems." The story mentions PostgreSQL as well, and presents a generally positive view of both.

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  1. Re:MySQL A threat, hah, tell me another one... by Verizon+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I know everyone's going to jump down my throat with "Hey, that's going to be in 4.x.y" blah blah... these things have been in use since the stone ages, too little too late and the support still isn't on par with Sybase, MsSQL, Oracle, etc..
    --scott

    Hey scott, is your last name "tiger"? :-)

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  2. Next in Slashdot by Lord+Sauron · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next in Slashdot:

    Linux: A Threat To The Big Operating Systems Vendors ?

    and

    Apache: A Threat to Commercial HTTP servers ?

  3. Should be illegal by setzman · · Score: 2, Funny

    A free program doing certain tasks better than high priced commericial programs? This should be illegal here in the USA, don't be surprised to see corporate execs begging Congress to ban this kind of thing!

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  4. Re:MySQL A threat, hah, tell me another one... by hpavc · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just cannot get enough of this simplicity:

    "MySQL Server does parse the FOREIGN KEY syntax in CREATE TABLE commands, but without further action being taken." (taken from
    http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ANSI_diff_Foreign_Ke ys .html )

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  5. Re:Tomorrow's top story on MSNBC by bankman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on, get out of the fifties and sixties: They are called terrorists now.

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