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MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans Refactoring
Gary Pendergast writes "Monty Widenius, the 'father' of MySQL, has created the the Open Database Alliance, with the aim of becoming the industry hub for the MySQL open source database. He wants to unify all MySQL-related development and services, providing a potential solution to the fragmentation and uncertainty facing the communities, businesses and technical experts involved with MySQL, following the news of the Oracle acquisition of Sun." Related to this, an anonymous reader writes that "MySQL has announced a project to refactor MySQL to be a more Drizzle-like database." Update: 05/14 20:50 GMT by T : Original headline implied that this was a project of Sun, but (thanks to the open source nature of MySQL) it's actually Monty Widenius — no longer with Sun — leading this effort.
What about Postgres can't play well with Perl? What do you think the point of DBI is?
If you have corporate hosting that won't let you install whatever you want, get a better host.
There's a ton of MySQL websites because everyone is struggling to make MySQL do anything useful.
MySQL isn't a database.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Either you have a very limited imagination, or you are exaggerating because you are biased. In either case, you have rendered your opinion useless.
Ah yes, but you're forgetting that postgre is advocated by smug holier-than-thou geeks, the kind that everyone wants to punch in the face. This means that it will continue to be an obscure footnote in database history, while mysql continues to be the world's most widely used database.