Has MySQL Forgotten All It Learnt?
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| Is this really the route that MySQL wants to take? If it is, then I think it
| is in for a rude surprise. The passion that hitherto has driven the MySQL
| community is not something that can be taken for granted. Tinker with the
| dynamics of participation, and you will find that people transfer their
| allegiance pretty fast.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&blogid=14&entryid=729#tsb
SUN, MySQL needs you to be bold, go for the cloud!
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| SUN wants to deal with MySQL like a small open source companies would:
| offering a few proprietary components on top of a free platform. This is so
| wrong: not only does it anger the community but it doesn't bring SUN anywhere
| near a solution that would leverage the long tail of MySQL adopters. How
| could you invest $1B in a company and subsequently foster such petty
| thoughts? Time to think differently.
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http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/2008/04/earth-to-jonath.html
Recent:
Compiere Delivers Open Source ERP Solution on EnterpriseDB
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| EnterpriseDB, the leading enterprise open source database company, and
| Compiere, Inc., the global leader in open source business solutions,
| announced today that Compiere will offer EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus
| Advanced Server as a database option for its open source enterprise resource
| planning (ERP) solution, Compiere.
|
| [...]
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| Previously, Compiere ran only on Oracle.
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http://newark.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=155511&type_news=latest
Report: Open-source databases on the rise
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| This is also why Sun is increasingly playing the leadership role in open
| source. I've opined before that MySQL could become the hub of the open-source
| ecosystem, just as Oracle has built itself into the hub of a significant
| proprietary ecosystem.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9913963-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
IBM's EnterpriseDB stake: not what you think
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| Ergo, this deal is IBM dipping its feet gingerly into a back door challenge
| to Oracle, not MySQL. Ever since IBM held back on its own SQL database
| invention, allowing Oracle to grab leadership of the market, it has always
| responded by making DB2 cheaper. But it still plays second banana. Investing
| a modest chunk in EnterpriseDB is a way of having somebody else test drive a
| new strategy for carving a wedge inside the Oracle market, something that IBM
| has hungered for going back at least 20 years.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/07/ibm_enterprisedb_stake/
What MySQL Can Learn from PostgreSQL
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| Changing the model of MySQL must happen for Sun to justify spending the
| money.
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http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/17/what-mysql-can-learn-from-postgresql
Related:
IBM Takes Stake in Open Source Database Vendor
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| For more than a decade, PostgreSQL has been a cornerstone of the open source
| database market. In recent years, EnterpriseDB has emerged as a leading
| vendor supporting and driving PostgreSQL forward.
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http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3736336
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