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Oracle and MySQL -- Good Move or Bad Bet?

Posted by Cliff on from the when-open-source-and-commercial-software-collude dept.

sendai-X writes "With the recently announced purchase of Innobase, Oracle has shown it's intention to further support open source. This is key as open source enters the mainstream in business and in light of the success IBM has had with the Eclipse project, and Sun recently looking at purchasing PostgresSQL. What do Slashdot users think about this merger? Is it beneficial to the market and database users by having the largest database vendor openly support MySQL and provide an upgrade path to Oracle? Or is it just another cog in the Oracle machine in their attempt to dominate the enterprise IT market? Will this change the database market landscape? Will it help or hurt IBM and Microsoft?"

3 of 226 comments (clear)

  1. say away from MySQL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MySQL is receiving help from SCO, and SCO is paying for specific development work to create a commercial version of the product for SCO. If SCO believes innovation that they paid for and advice they provided gets into the general product .. they will probably sue.

    I'd stay away from MySQL and use Postgresql or any of the other alternatives .. including commercial ones.

  2. Re:Purchase PostgreSQL? by toofast · · Score: 0, Troll

    Eclipse's downloads database grows by just shy of 1 million records each day. We keep the current month and last month's records on hand. We also have a tool to run queries against it. Just massive.

    Handled by MySQL.

  3. FIRsT PoOST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A fuul-time GNAA person. As4 your