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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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