SAP and MySQL Join Forces · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Friday May 23, 2003 @08:31AM from the join-me-and-together-we-can-rule-the-galaxy dept.

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.

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Features? by m0rph3us0 · 2003-05-23 08:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

I didnt know the loosing the ability to have foriegn keys and the ability to easily define functions and data types was an improvement. Why would anyone want to move from a database to a suped up version of Excel.