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MySQL Founders Reunite To Form SkySQL
mikejuk writes "The founders of the original MySQL, the open-source database, are getting back together in a merger between Monty Program and SkySQL. SkySQL was created by around two dozen former MySQL executives and investors after Oracle bought MySQL from Sun. Widenius started Monty Program AB and created the MariaDB database from some of MySQL's open source code. The merger will provide a stronger rival to MySQL, so reassuring users who are worried about Oracle's future plans for the database."
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skySQL will be part of the skyNET infrastructure that will kill us all :)
It's all in the sky.... and clouds....
"general absence of programmers, engineers fails to deter C-levels from merging two companies in an effort to become a more robust alternative to databases that still arent hadoop, couch or hypertable"
Good people go to bed earlier.
There are several good open source/free to use database engines. MySQL is not one of them.
On the other hand, it's the only concurrent DB I would consider to be a perfect match for PHP. ;)
Install windows on my workstation? You crazy? Got any idea how much I paid for the damn thing?
I was just coming around to the idea I might explore MariaDB next time I needed to do something, where normally I've been turning to MySQL. Is SkySQL replacing that, now?
Also, do any of the large, inexpensive web hosts (hostgator, dreamhost, servint, etc.) provide either of these alternatives yet? Because frankly I'm not going to do a lot of personal configuration or pay a lot extra just for the novelty.
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