The Ups and Downs of MySQL AB

Posted by Hemos on Saturday October 15, 2005 @03:25AM 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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Re:Doesn't worry me much by bani · 2005-10-15 12:46 · Score: 0, Troll

so why doesnt anyone use postgresql?

maybe its the fanatic and demeaning attitude of postgresql users?

sort of like why nobody uses qmail or openbsd -- because djb and tdr have egos the size of galaxies.

hint: you don't win converts by talking down to them.