MySQL 5 Production in November

thatoneguyfromphoeni writes "CIO.com is reporting that MySQL AB is eyeing Nov. for the production release of MySQL 5. 'The company is calling version 5 its most significant upgrade yet. It adds a handful of features considered important for enterprises that have long been available from market leaders Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Chief among them are triggers, views and stored procedures.'"

Comments

MySQL has finally caught up

[Michalson]

MySQL has finally caught up to the state of the enterprise relational database industry...as it was in 1999. Points for effort, but everyone else is still ahead with core features like integrity, leaving them free to build on new and better features. Bundling with PHP will only get you so far.

Just in time...

[Martin Blank]

Sneaking in just in time before MS SQL 2005 can get out the door (or perhaps just after) is good for this.

I recently showed the latest rev to the SQL devs here, and they were most impressed. Most of the complaints about it were gone; the new GUI is miles beyond what they had before, and the new features (views, stored procedures, better VARCHAR support) have people thinking that for smaller projects, MySQL will work out just as well as MS-SQL, and at a fraction of the cost, if any cost at all.