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SAP and MySQL Join Forces

Posted by michael on 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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  1. no more RDBS? by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 0, Troll

    When the push towards removing the asine way RDBS serializes object amoung oop lanagues..with such new stuff as using oop bojects in ram as the db integrated with such new frameworks as AOP and consildation within the DB industry

    It dose make sense for MYSQL and SAP to combine fores..however it still does not delay the transfromation or convergnece in going from RDBS to something more attuned to how we program in OOP languages..

    You would think that they might be looking at something like Prevalyer and seeing how to use that approach..

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  2. Re:SAP setzt auf MySQL by athakur999 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Would a query like this:

    SELECT * FROM users WHERE userid = 'ahitler';

    Cause the DB to crash, per Godwin's Law?

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