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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.

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  1. mooo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mooooooooooooo first post? maybe..who knows

  2. KarmaBurnFriday; time to speak of Michael. by grub · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Michael is redundant.

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when Netcraft confirmed that interest in stories by Michael has dropped yet again, now down to unmeasurable levels.

    Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that stories by Michael have garnered more pointless trolls, including this post, than all other editors combined. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Michael is grasping at straws when posting articles. This was fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in recent polls as to Most Popular Editor.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Things are looking very bad for Michael. His office is dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Michael continues to lose reader interest. Goatse.cx trolls abound, their red hue colouring monitors like a river of blood.

    Michael's other project, the Censorware Project, once a glowing bastion of free speech now features a personal attack on its main page. The Censorware Project is dead, all that remains to be done is to have its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Michael has turned Slashdot into a laughing stock when he makes juvenile, biased comments. Michael's long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael's job at Slashdot is to survive at all, he wil be read by nothing more than granola-crunching leftists and dilettante First Amendment dabblers and hangers-on. Michael's arrogance continues to grow as Slashdot decays for it. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is irrelevant.

    Fact: Michael is redundant.

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    Trolling is a art,
    1. Re:KarmaBurnFriday; time to speak of Michael. by Real+World+Stuff · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      THE FRIDAY BURN! Hell yeah,

      Michael Sims, Domain Hijacking and Moral Equivalency
      by Jonathan Wallace jw@bway.net
      How would you feel if your webmaster maliciously took your web-site offline, then, when you demanded its return, put up a site attacking your company at your old URL? It happened to a group I was involved in, the Censorware Project, currently at http://www.censorware.net. The purpose of this essay is to put the behavior on record, and to give you some impressions and inferences about it.

      The Censorware Project was originally an informal collective of six people who collaborated online to fight censorware: Seth Finkelstein, Bennett Haselton, Jamie McCarthy, Mike Sims, Jim Tyre and myself. Several of us had never met or even spoken on the phone, yet for some time -- around two years as I recall -- we had a remarkably easy collaboration. There was no funding, no hierarchy, no titles, not even project managers. Someone would suggest a project and take the responsibility for a part of it, others would sign up for other elements, and proceeding this way we got a remarkable amount of work done, including reports on X-Stop, Cyberpatrol, Bess and other censorware products.

      Even though two of us were attorneys -- Jim and myself -- we never incorporated the group or wrote a charter or any contracts among ourselves. Mike Sims was obliging enough to register the domain, just as other members paid for press releases and the other incidental expenses which came along. Mike also served as webmaster of the censorware.org site and did substantial work for the group, including writing contributions to several of the reports and lead authorship of at least one. Seth was the source of our decrypted censorware blacklists and managed many technical tasks, but later felt he had to leave the group because of the increasing prospects of a lawsuit, particularly under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). After Seth left the group, the remaining five continued.

      Robert Frost said that "nothing gold can stay," and the Censorware Project was no exception. Over the summer of 2000, Mike Sims' reaction to a perceived slight from Jim Tyre was to take the site down for a week. He sent us mail at the time saying something like "The Censorware Project is now closed." I replied to him that, given that the group was a collective and we all had an interest in its work product, the domain, and the goodwill it had achieved, the decision was not his to make. Sims did not reply.

      After Seth created a partial, text, mirror, Mike put the site back up a week later without explaining, let alone apologizing for, his actions. Given his continuing failure to answer any email from me (and I think from others) and the overall signs that Sims thought the group was exclusively his, I wrote him several emails requesting that he turn the domain over to Jamie or Bennett, as I felt we could no longer trust him to administer it. We also found out during that time that important email from people trying to contact us, including members of the press, was not being answered by Sims, nor being forwarded to other members.

      I ultimately became exasperated that my name was listed as a principal on what had now become a "rogue" site I had no control over. Over about a five week period, I wrote Sims several more emails asking him to delete my name from the site if he wasn't going to transfer the domain. Again, I received no reply.

      In November 2000, Sims took the Censorware Project site offline again, with a message saying "Due to demands from some of the people who contributed, in however minor a fashion, to this site, it has been taken down." Judging from some email I received from him at the time, this meant me.

      Its a sad thing, both because we got some good work done and because some of the other members of the group were eager to continue and in fact have continued working, while deprived then of the Censorware Project site, name, email aliases and public recognition. Within a few months after, we re

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    2. Re:KarmaBurnFriday; time to speak of Michael. by davidkw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Karma Burn is right! Time to reset my threshhold. This is completely childish.

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    3. Re:KarmaBurnFriday; time to speak of Michael. by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      This is completely childish.

      Childishness? On slashdot? That almost never happens!
  3. Michael picks corn from poo. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Michael is redundant.

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when Netcraft confirmed that interest in stories by Michael has dropped yet again, now down to unmeasurable levels.

    Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that stories by Michael have garnered more pointless trolls, including this post, than all other editors combined. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Michael is grasping at straws when posting articles. This was fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in recent polls as to Most Popular Editor.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Things are looking very bad for Michael. His office is dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Michael continues to lose reader interest. Goatse.cx trolls abound, their red hue colouring monitors like a river of blood.

    Michael's other project, the Censorware Project, once a glowing bastion of free speech now features a personal attack on its main page. The Censorware Project is dead, all that remains to be done is to have its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Michael has turned Slashdot into a laughing stock when he makes juvenile, biased comments. Michael's long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael's job at Slashdot is to survive at all, he wil be read by nothing more than granola-crunching leftists and dilettante First Amendment dabblers and hangers-on. Michael's arrogance continues to grow as Slashdot decays for it. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is irrelevant.

    Fact: Michael is redundant.

  4. MYSql is ok. But what about Firebird(phoenix) by zymano · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Firebird is also smaller download

    more info here firebird,phoenix

    Getting real sick of certain media and companies pushing products.

    Firebird is never mentioned but i hear it's good.

  5. Pull That Fist Outta Your Ass, Michael! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Michael is redundant.

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when Netcraft confirmed that interest in stories by Michael has dropped yet again, now down to unmeasurable levels.

    Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that stories by Michael have garnered more pointless trolls, including this post, than all other editors combined. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Michael is grasping at straws when posting articles. This was fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in recent polls as to Most Popular Editor.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Things are looking very bad for Michael. His office is dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Michael continues to lose reader interest. Goatse.cx trolls abound, their red hue colouring monitors like a river of blood.

    Michael's other project, the Censorware Project, once a glowing bastion of free speech now features a personal attack on its main page. The Censorware Project is dead, all that remains to be done is to have its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Michael has turned Slashdot into a laughing stock when he makes juvenile, biased comments. Michael's long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael's job at Slashdot is to survive at all, he wil be read by nothing more than granola-crunching leftists and dilettante First Amendment dabblers and hangers-on. Michael's arrogance continues to grow as Slashdot decays for it. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is irrelevant.

    Fact: Michael is redundant.

  6. Michael aka "McFisty" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Michael is redundant.

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when Netcraft confirmed that interest in stories by Michael has dropped yet again, now down to unmeasurable levels.

    Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that stories by Michael have garnered more pointless trolls, including this post, than all other editors combined. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Michael is grasping at straws when posting articles. This was fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in recent polls as to Most Popular Editor.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Things are looking very bad for Michael. His office is dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Michael continues to lose reader interest. Goatse.cx trolls abound, their red hue colouring monitors like a river of blood.

    Michael's other project, the Censorware Project, once a glowing bastion of free speech now features a personal attack on its main page. The Censorware Project is dead, all that remains to be done is to have its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Michael has turned Slashdot into a laughing stock when he makes juvenile, biased comments. Michael's long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael's job at Slashdot is to survive at all, he wil be read by nothing more than granola-crunching leftists and dilettante First Amendment dabblers and hangers-on. Michael's arrogance continues to grow as Slashdot decays for it. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is irrelevant.

    Fact: Michael is redundant.

  7. Re:Unofficial Pout by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your sig: is that some French beverage?

  8. And a darn good browser, too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MySql isn't very good for web browsing.

  9. reminds me of a story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Recently I was shopping around for a high-end German-made sedan. The new ones were just way out of my price range so I was looking for a recent used model.

    After searching everywhere I found an incredible deal. When I questioned the salesman about the extremely low price he explained that the previous owners had died in the vehicle. At first I thought "Yeah, so what."

    It turns out that the previous summer they had been driving through the Florida everglades and gotten lost. They eventually baked to death in the car miles from nowhere when it ran out of gas.

    The first thing I noticed when I opened the door was that the seats were permanently stained where the bodies had rotted for over a month in the summer Florida sun. This was followed by a terrible nauseating wave of putrescence. Then I was like, "Ugh gross, the GPS navigation system runs on Windows CE."

    Needless to say, I abandoned all thoughts of purchasing that particular vehicle.