IBM, MS Critique MySQL

magellan writes "InfoWorld has an article reporting how both IBM and Microsoft are dissing MySQL. While it is understandable from Microsoft, it is interesting that IBM, who often claims to be a defender of Open Source Software, would be so negative. Sun Microsystems and Yahoo are quoted as providing positive opinions on MySQL." On the credit site for MySQL, though, Bingo Foo writes "MySQL has finally answered its detractors who complained about its lack of transactions. A press release today reveals that InnoDB is now fully integrated with the stock MySQL product, allowing ACID-compliant transactions, rollback, and crash recovery. Let the religious wars begin!"

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Trojan

[sdjunky]

"'So far, I still see MySQL and some of the other open-source databases as really niche players,' said Sheryl Tullis, product manager for the SQL Server database at Microsoft."

niche players? Oh.. I get it. No other DBMS opens your box to more Trojans and Virii than SQL Server. I guess they're worried about losing market share in that arena.

Yuck

[nebby]

MySQL is another one of those poorly implemented technologies that somehow get widespread adoption and spread poor programming/design practices like wildfire. MySQL is to bad database design as QWERTY is to carpal tunnel syndrome and IE is to shitty, non-compliant HTML.

If you have only known and used MySQL, you do not understand the real motivation for using a RDBMS.

Re:Why is it that everyone seems to lose. . .

[greygent]

I *applaud* your *use* of the evermost *heterosexual* "*" emphasizing *of* *key* phrases *and* words.