Sun buys mySQL

[LuckyTaxi]

Great - hope it development doesnt slow to a crawl like some of their other open source apps.

 

[Nothinman]

Might be time to start looking at PostgreSQL a little closer. =)

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Might be time to start looking at PostgreSQL a little closer. =)

So true

 

[Nothinman]

Why does that get a frowney? I believe that PostgreSQL is overall the technically better database of the two anyway.

 

[programmer]

Saw the Sun/MySQL headline this morning. Still not sure how I feel about it. My gut tells me its yet another costly mistake by Sun, and it won't help MySQL too much. I'll have to go read a couple of the latest MySQL-PostgreSQL comparisons. They each have pros and cons, depending on your needs (e.g. query optimization, ideal database size, etc.)

 

[heymrdj]

I think we'll start loosing the mysql we've come to know and love. I love mysql, i find postgre an absolute B**** to install on systems.

 

[Nothinman]

i find postgre an absolute B**** to install on systems.

That's odd, I install PostgreSQL just like MySQL: 'aptitude install postgresql-8.2'.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Why does that get a frowney? I believe that PostgreSQL is overall the technically better database of the two anyway.

Frowney cause all my systems use mysql!

 

[Nothinman]

Frowney cause all my systems use mysql!

Well the code's still GPL'd so if it really goes that bad someone will create a fork from the last legal release and develop that seperate from Sun. Initially it'll suck but eventually one will become dominant and the other will fade away like the whole XFree/Xorg debacle.

 

[msound]

My gut tells me its yet another costly mistake by Sun

Hmm - Sun has been profitable for 4 or 5 quarters in a row now. I believe that's their longest profit streak since the .com bubble burst. J Schwartz seems to be a man on a mission, and I personally like the direction he's headed with Sun.

I think we'll start loosing the mysql we've come to know and love.

I was more concerned about that when Oracle snatched up InnoDB and BerkleyDB. Yeah MyISAM is super fast, but there are a lot of web applications that rely on a transactional database engine. Oracle hasn't flexed their muscles and restricted use of those two db engines - but the fear of that has lead to the development of Falcon - MySQL's home-grown transactional database engine.

MySQL is great for web startups and Wordpress blogs, and it's also blazingly fast. I don't think any of that is going to change with Sun's acquisition. If anything - I think Sun will continue to innovate and improve MySQL by dumping massive amounts of money into R&D.

I gotta tell ya - with ZFS, Project Indiana, and now this - I gotta start looking at OpenSolaris. If you give me Solaris and all of the cool Sun goodies that come with that + the easy package management of a Debian based linux distro + the flexibility of ZFS + MySQL performance enhancements (as though it weren't already fast enough) and I'd have to seriously consider ditching linux in favor of Solaris/OpenSolaris.

In Schwartz we trust...

 

[Nothinman]

If you give me Solaris and all of the cool Sun goodies that come with that + the easy package management of a Debian based linux distro + the flexibility of ZFS + MySQL performance enhancements (as though it weren't already fast enough) and I'd have to seriously consider ditching linux in favor of Solaris/OpenSolaris.

It's called Nextenta. Although the legality of it's questionable since many people believe that it's not legal to distribute GPL'd binaries linked against CDDL'd libraries.

 

[msound]

Yeah I was going to look into that a few months ago - it was back during my "try a new distro each week phase". Eventually I installed Ubuntu and that phase just kinda ended

 

[kamper]

Hmm, I remember reading a while back about how Sun was considering a db offering but they were supposedly going to back postgres. I thought they actually employed the lead developer. Oh well, I too think postgres is much nicer than mysql although I've never dealt with mysql for longer than it took me to start disliking it

Will be interesting to see how mysql fares in the next few years. I haven't seen anything that interests me out of solaris yet.

 

[kamper]

$1 billion. Wow.