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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. 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...

  2. 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?