MySQL Outpacing Oracle In Wake of Acquisition

snydeq writes "Results from the 2010 Eclipse User Survey reveal interesting trends surrounding open source usage and opinions, writes InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues. Linux usage among developers is on the rise, at the expense of Windows, and MySQL has pulled ahead of Oracle, by a factor of 3-to-2, as the database of choice among Eclipse developers. 'The data demonstrate that fears surrounding Oracle's control over MySQL have not resulted in lower use of MySQL in favor of an alternative open source database,' Rodrigues writes."

Comments

postgres didn't do so badly

[MagicMerlin]

11%...edging out ms sql server! Postgres 9.0 has built in replication -- it will be interesting to see how that affects its share of the open source db space.

Re:Oh, bruther

[14erCleaner]

Furthermore, this is a survey of Eclipse users, not all database users. Developers using a free framework prefer a free database. Surprise!