Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source?

Posted by timothy on Friday August 17, 2012 @05:26PM from the seems-like-a-reasonable-suspicion dept.

mpol writes "Sergei from MariaDB speculated on some changes within MySQL 5.5.27. It seems new testcases aren't included with MySQL any more, which leaves developers depending on it in the cold. 'Does this mean that test cases are no longer open source? Oracle did not reply to my question. But indeed, there is evidence that this guess is true. For example, this commit mail shows that new test cases, indeed, go in this "internal" directory, which is not included in the MySQL source distribution.' On a similar note, updates for the version history on Launchpad are not being updated anymore. What is Oracle's plan here? And is alienating the developer community just not seen as a problem at Oracle?"

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Re:Just use Postgresql by LingNoi · 2012-08-17 19:03 · Score: 0, Troll

Sorry but you're biased and wrong about how easy Postgre is to use. I've tried numerous times to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL and every time I found it less easy then MySQL is. There is a reason that MySQL is more popular, you can install phpmyadmin and away you go, although there is phppgadmin it fails to capture the ease of use that phpmyadmin has. The rest of the postgresql tools suffer from the same problem.