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Sun Buys MySQL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the didn't-see-that-coming dept.

Krow alerted me that MySQL has been bought by Sun. Right now there is only a brief announcement but it discusses what the acquisition will mean for the core developers, community etc.

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  1. Re:I wonder by MightyYar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    100,000+ lines... ha! Excel does indeed suck at that. I'm still not upgraded, so mine can't handle more than about 64,000 anyway :)

    My company had an extremely complicated model done in Excel and it was an absolute nightmare. My favorite is how Excel silently fails on custom functions. I successfully lobbied to get it changed to a web app (PHP and MySQL if you must know...).

    I was just wondering what the problem with putting a hundred or so contacts into Excel was. It's a pretty darn useful small database program, you know :) I shudder at the thought of mom and pop putting everything in Access.

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