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MySQL to Adopt Solid Storage Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the solid-gone-baby dept.

hmart writes "As seen on ZDNet's Open Source Blog MySQL is taking another step to defend from Oracle's recent acquisitions of InnoBase and Sleepycat. From the article: 'MySQL responds by getting Solid Information Technology, a proprietary database vendor, to take its solidDB Storage Engine for MySQL open source, under the GPL, starting in June.'"

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  1. and how many.... by scenestar · · Score: 0, Troll

    web apps are going to have to be re-written because of this?

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  2. Re:This is good news by mccoma · · Score: 1, Troll
    Your right, dual-licensing requires ownership or agreement. It does make me wonder what happens if Oracle buys Solid.

    New Business Plan:
    1. Build transaction database engine
    2. let MySQL license it in their dual licensing scheme
    3. Get bought by Oracle

    MySQL might want to build their own engine or branch a BSD / Public Domain (e.g. SQLite) engine. It would sure keep this stuff from continuing.

    Once again "If you go the dual-licensing route - you need to own the code"

  3. Re:LARP by kz45 · · Score: 0, Troll

    PostgreSQL is superior to MySQL in amny ways
    Ruby has many advantages over Perl and Python ... I have been using Perl for 5 years. After 1 month with Ruby, I'm not going back.

    while it may be superior (I still don't know if I believe this), the support is still not there. The mysql/php combo is installed on most web-hosting providers.

  4. Re:This is good news by dbIII · · Score: 0, Troll
    I was always under the impression that MySQL was a 'amateur' database. I was very surprised when I was forced to switch from Microsoft SQL 2000 - MySQL
    Well, from one 'amateur' database to another. Microsoft have been changing for hobby software for years but it has been the cheapest option and just good enough for many years.
  5. Re:LARP by Jessta · · Score: 0, Troll

    And the support will never be there unless there is demand for it or people writing web applications in language other than mess that is php.

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