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Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves

Posted by Soulskill on from the slowly-and-surly dept.

New submitter packetrat writes "Ars Technica analyzes the recent commercial additions by Oracle to MySQL Enterprise and the additional unrest it's added to the community. Oracle may be throwing itself out of the community as it pushes more customers to look at fully open-source alternatives."

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  1. Pushing to look at alternatives, really? by sander · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The part about pushing people to consider alternatives seems to be founded on very thin ice - the alternatives do not actually offer you the functionality you woudl have to pay for in case of using "Oracle" MySQL, and also, if you use Oracle MySQL to get the for pay features and support, you would select teh system you run it on based on what is supported - just the same as you do with any database you pay support for.

    1. Re:Pushing to look at alternatives, really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      What kind of functionality do you want that PostgreSQL can't provide?

  2. Surely only an issue for Windows... by Ynot_82 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and any other OS without package management

    Most Linux distros will simply just point the mysql packages to mariadb (or whatever fork), and end-users will not have to do (or know) anything

    Upgrade, continue as usual, and wonder why the windows people are jumping up & down...