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Locating the Real MySQL
An anonymous reader writes "In a blog post, Patrick Galbraith, an ex-core engineer on the MySQL Server team, raises the question: "What is the official branch of MySQL?" With Monty Widenius having left Sun and forked off MySQL for MariaDB, and Brian Aker running the Drizzle fork inside of Sun, where is the official MySQL tree? Sun may own the trademark, but it looks like there is doubt as to whether they are still the maintainers of the actual codebase after their $1B acquisition of the code a year ago. Smugmug's Don MacAskhill, who is the keynote at the upcoming MySQL Conference, has commented that he is now using the Percona version of MySQL, and is no longer relying on Sun's."
What did Sun buy exactly? Sales and support?
A bridge!
Hello Mr Sun CEO, I have a bridge here to sell you! Best deal you'll ever make. Pinky swear.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
please stand up?
THE MAGIC WORDS ARE SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE
For $1B I'd say it's plenty viable to sell an open source business. Buying one on the other hand may be open to debate.
Ah, but those steaming turds are just the ticket for a consultant looking to warm his hands.
I'm a consultant, and I love steaming turds!
Here we have the one shinning open source alternative to commercial databases
Bart: Don't you mean shining?
Willie: Shh! You wanna get sued?
What, haven't you people heard of Access??
Here are some sites that might help.
big turds for the money sewer.
And that's why, as a consultant, I'm always "flush" with cash!
If they can't find the real MySQL, sounds like they need a unique identifier with an index...
MySQL resides with Sun. Period. End of discussion.
I don't know why this is marked as Funny... there are far too many programs or even webapps (PHP ones in particular) that only work with MySQL.
The problem is that the Funny mod can't differentiate between when someone is laughing with you or at you.
Dual Opteron < $600
a. the tech is solid (typically mention Wikipedia for that one)
So do you edit the Wikipedia page just before you tell your boss look at it?
You know something is wrong when a discussion of MySQL is dominated by comments about PostgreSQL.
Or you're on Slashdot. My guess: when the editors see the MySQL article in the queue, they think, "We haven't had a MySQL/PostgreSQL flamewar in a while. Let's post this!"