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SAP and MySQL Join Forces
An anonymous reader writes "Heise Online is reporting that SAP and MySQL are going to cooperate (German article, you may want to use Google's translation). Short summary: MySQL and SAP are going to develop a new database server. 'The primary responsibility for the development and product management is with MySQL' says SAP spokesperson Karl-Heinz Hess. Until the new database is released, SAP will continue to develop its own free database system SAP DB, however it will now use the MySQL brand name." On a related note, IBM is introducing a low-end version of DB2.
Oh? I heard it was to be GNU/MySQL-MozillaPhoenixFirebird.
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Why would IBM hitch its wagon to MySQL?
IBM has DB2, which is vastly superior to MySQL.
MySQL has improved, but it really is still pretty crappy. No subselects, no triggers, and it doesnt even use real standard SQL.
Its fine for most web applications, which are just simple table lookups, but for more complicated data management systems, it cant remotely cut it.
Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 have a lock on the enterprise DMBS market, and for good reason. They are the best pieces of software in the field right now.
There simply is no free enterprise class DBMS.
It would be nice to see MySQL eventually evolve into one. I remember when it couldnt hold more than 2 million records per table, which wasnt too long ago. It still has a long ways to go, at least before I can consider it a replacement to what we use SQL Server for right now.
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