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.

Comments

Re:SAP?

[jdh-22]

SAP DB is pretty much equivalent to Oracle 7.3.4 which is to say that it's a solid product for many real-world applications, but lacks many of the features for truly high-end deployment, like clustering, complex replication, guaranteed messaging, etc. I'd take Sapdb over MySQL any day, and probably over Postgres too. Another nice thing about SAP DB is that it can emulate Oracle's system tables, so an Oracle DBA can administer a SAP DB system very easily.

Re:SAP?

[davidkw]

SAP isn't a database. It is a software package, a collection of programs like PeopleSoft and Oracle Applications, which allows for the management HR, payroll, and industry specific applications... SAP software still runs best on Oracle databases, although they will never limit themselves to that statement. SAP is database independent and mySql is just another tool that they can use for marketing