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Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL?

Posted by timothy on from the so-long-as-it's-internet-scale dept.

littlekorea writes "The world's largest web-scale users of MySQL have committed to one further upgrade to the Oracle-controlled database — but Facebook and Twitter are also eyeing off more open options from MariaDB and cheaper options from the NoSQL community. Who will pay for MySQL enterprise licenses into the future?"

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  1. Re:Enterprise? by aitikin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wait, you actually RTFA. You must be new here.

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  2. What the hell is "eyeing off"? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    but Facebook and Twitter are also eyeing off more open options

    Facepalm.

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