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Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features

Posted by samzenpus on from the closing-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From the MySQL User's Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base. Sun will begin with close sourcing the backup solutions to MySQL, and will continue with more advanced features. With Oracle owning Innodb, and it being GPL, does this mean that MySQL will be removing it to introduce these features? Sun has had a very poor history of actually open sourcing anything."

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  1. You can't effectively close-source anything GPL... by edlinfan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...because someone with the source will fork it.

    Sun appears to have made a bonehead move. Now the masses will turn somewhere else for high-quality FOSS SQL...

  2. Best not to worry about forking by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I like MySQL, I have no real issues with it. But if it's going closed source, I say let it be. Time to put energy behind Postgresql

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  3. Noooo!! (MySQL 1995-2008) by Bushido+Hacks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    MySQL was outstanding. At least in my opinion. Where Oracle took 2 GB of space to download then had to be burned to a CD, MySQL was a lightweight, straight-forward relational database managment system.

    Closing off MySQL will have serious consequences for PHP and C developers since SUN will rewrite the entire MySQL API strictly in Java.

    Perhaps now would be a good time to migrate to PostgreSQL.

    Goodbye MySQL. :-(

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    The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
  4. Re:This is great news.... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ISTR that iSQL is the name of the command-line client for Sybase.
    How about SQOOLMy? (pronounced 'school me')
    Same letters as before, only with some leftover 'OO' pixie dust from the Clinton Administration mixed in.
    Just no way to work XML in there while remaining mellifluous, alas.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  5. Remove this! by spydabyte · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How can false opinionated stories like this be published? With it being Sun Week on campus, I've had some recent (yesterday) exposure and discussions with some of their representatives. Sun singlehandedly contributes the majority (Yes, above 50%) of Open Source code in the online community, thanks to their newly acquired MySQL. Read More, and next time get your facts right.