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[nycphp-talk] MySQL bought by SUN.

Brian D. brian at realm3.com
Wed Jan 16 11:46:06 EST 2008


"The best news here is that we no longer have to worry about Oracle
buying MySQL."

Preach on, Brother John.

I really, really hope they work out their licensing problems, too.
Just yesterday I was attempting to use mod_authn_dbd with MySQL, only
to discover that MySQL support was removed due to "licensing issues",
and to fix it one would have to recompile everything. It's not the
only time I've run into problems like that.



On Jan 16, 2008 11:01 AM, John Campbell <jcampbell1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Pretty interesting stuff... OpenSolaris/MySQL could be a powerful duo -
> > in addition, of course, to the existing de-facto Solaris/Oracle duo.
>
> I think this is more about attaching a brand like Sun to the MySQL
> database rather than trying to create a better Solaris MySQL stack.
> "MySQL from Sun" has more credibility with enterprise customers than
> "MySQL from MySQL AB".  It should be good news for LAMP developers,
> because it will lead to more acceptance of MySQL in the enterprise
> which increases demand for LAMP coders.   The best news here is that
> we no longer have to worry about Oracle buying MySQL.
>
> Regards,
> John Campbell
>
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