Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:21:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mysql60-server?? Message-ID: <4B0DADF1.1050402@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091125195906.GA58848@thought.org> References: <20091125185704.GA58709@thought.org> <4B0D8299.6080201@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20091125195906.GA58848@thought.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD9579F7556C3B21ED4F660AF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Gary Kline wrote: > Thanks for the heads-up, MAtthew. I'm much too slow to get > all the machinations re which corporation is diddling which > corporation or other entity (like us). Did not know that > mysql was actually owned by Sun. I'd ask if there are any > free and open databases, but what db stuff I have is invested > heavily with mysql. So v 60 is out. Do you know, off-chance, > which versions are actively being hacked on? Nothing mission > critical--yet--but I think v51 is the best bet for now. Well, what will eventually happen to MySQL is as yet unclear. It's too popular and too widespread for Oracle to just kill it, so my best guess is that they'll keep it on as an open source type project, but they'll treat it as a means of getting in the door to try and sell Oracle support= in a lot of places. Which implies that any technology transfer will be mostly from MySQL to Oracle and precious little in the other direction, so that the commercial version of Oracle will maintain a technological edge. In the mean time, a bunch of die-hard MySQL people have forked a new=20 instantiation of that project which isn't under the same commercial constraints: see http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB Active development is mostly occurring on MySQL 5.1 and 5.4 -- not sure where 6.0 is going although they did have plenty of development goals oth= er than 'not get borged by Oracle'. But of course, there is the technically better, almost certainly faster a= t real world tasks, but less optimised for noddy benchmarks option: Postgre= SQL. It's BSD licenced, and while there are commercially supported variants, the core development team and the intellectual property are not structure= d in a way to put them at any risk of being gobbled up by some mega-corpora= tion. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigD9579F7556C3B21ED4F660AF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAksNrfcACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxLegCfZkwSOJ7p7MXAPIewAeJd02in zdIAn1ar51MMHzWpAYAMS0woMXfzflg6 =PKDd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD9579F7556C3B21ED4F660AF--
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