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MySQL Founders Reunite To Form SkySQL

Posted by timothy on from the together-again-at-last dept.

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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  1. Stronger rival? by HornWumpus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are they kidding? These people have already demonstrated their incompetence.

    There are several good open source/free to use database engines. MySQL is not one of them.

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    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
    1. Re:Stronger rival? by HornWumpus · · Score: 0, Troll

      Would you use a bank that kept your account information in MySQL?

      MySQL is only good enough to keep unimportant information. Which means it's not good enough, period. You can never know what will grow into something worth shit. If you built it around MySQL's (and it's bugs) you are stuck with it.

      At best it's a learning tool. Maintain it for a year and you are ether hopeless or you will understand what a good database isn't.

      --
      John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'