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MySQL to Get Injection of Google Code
inkslinger77 writes to mention that MySQL has published their software roadmap out through 2009 and it includes an injection of code from Google. Google remains relatively secretive about how their systems work but they are one of the largest users of MySQL. Earlier this year Google signed a Contributor License Agreement which provides a framework for them to contribute code to MySQL. "The search company has done a lot of work customizing MySQL to meet its special needs, which include better database replication, and tools to monitor a high volume of database instances, Axmark said in an interview at MySQL's user conference in Paris. MySQL will include some of those capabilities in future versions of its database, probably in point upgrades to MySQL 6.0, which is scheduled for general availability in late 2008, Axmark said."
Insightful? Fine for a web server perhaps.
Look in the corporate space. Oracle is everywhere. SQLServer is around (not popular in my experience). Mysql is nowhere.
Mysql has a long way to go to justify its $200 per client cost (the GPL version being pretty useless for deployment - mysql consider releasing an application that is even compatible with their client as 'distribution' of Mysql (check their site.. it's amazing to read their interpretation of the GPL) and unless you're 100% GPL you're liable for the client cost for every single user).