IBM, MS Critique MySQL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 23, 2002 @07:22AM from the some-sqls-are-good dept.

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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IBM On MySQL by daviskw · 2002-09-23 07:24 · Score: 1, Redundant

One word (sort of anyway) DB2. IBM has made a ton of money on databases. It isn't surprising that they would diss a substandard newbee.

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Re:Sad by tomhudson · 2002-09-23 08:01 · Score: 0, Redundant

does MySQL support cluserting, fail-over,
<grin> Well, microshit supports cluster-fucks, and its' latest OS falls over just as quickly as its' previous releases.</grin>