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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. 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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