Oracle Lines Up Unbreakable MySQL

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 29, 2007 @05:10AM from the the-swirling-of-large-and-small dept.

munchola writes "MySQL CEO, Marten Mickos, has revealed to CBRonline that Oracle has threatened to provide support for MySQL and is already distributing the open source database. "They have hinted to us that they will," said Mickos, indicating that the database giant is planning to repeat its October 2006 Unbreakable Linux plan, which saw it undercut Red Hat with enterprise Linux support. Despite the competitive threat, Mickos is unmoved. "I hope they do that," he said, noting that it would be seen as an endorsement of the open source database.""

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Re:Oracle Sucks by nuzak · 2007-01-29 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

> If you came up with a ratio of $spent/$productivity, Oracle would probably throw a divide by zero error.

Whereas MySQL would silently insert a default value.

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Re:Oracle distributing MySQL? by Rob+T+Firefly · 2007-01-29 05:32 · Score: 4, Funny

(*) I just pulled that number from clear air.
As a highly-trained professional business analyst at the top of my field, I'll thank you to stop muscling in on my freaking scam.

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