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The Ups and Downs of MySQL AB

Posted by Hemos on from the pick-the-battles-to-fight dept.

Wannabe Code Monkey writes "Forbes has an article about a recent MySQL deal with SCO and the reaction from the open source community: "It's been a rough week for Marten Mickos, the chief executive of open source database maker MySQL AB. First his most dreaded rival, Oracle acquired a company that supplies a key piece of MySQL's software, a move that could make life difficult for Uppsala, Sweden-based MySQL, which has the most popular open source database. If that wasn't bad enough, Mickos is being denounced as a traitor by noisy fanatics in the open source software community because last month he dared to make a deal with SCO Group, a company reviled by fans of Linux and other open source software.""

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  1. PostgreSQL vs MySQL: Any reason for MySQL anymore? by fbg111 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now that PostgreSQL covers all major platforms (Windows with the 8.x version), is there any technical reason to use MySQL instead of PostgreSQL anymore? PostgreSQL has a better license, is free, is free, is more of a real database with transactions, triggers, stored procs, much better relational model adherence, and all the other great things about PostgreSQL mentioned in other threads. Any reason at all?

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