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The Ups and Downs of MySQL AB
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.""
Money brings food to the table. It's been proven that communism ain't gonna work for long, not even Marx', and those that can, get out when they can. That rumble in the tummy ain't fun, rock starz.
Databases (and the relational model) have failed. We should all move on to something superior (Rails & AJAX).
so why doesnt anyone use it?
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.
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.
mysql users who want to make postgresql people look bad? perhaps you didn't already notice, but they do that all by themselves without any assistance whatsoever.
mysql stories always end up being accosted by hordes of postgresql missionaries, perhaps they'd win more converts if they weren't so shrill "you're going to HELL unless you convert, you miserable sinner!"