Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Jul 12 12:57:19 CDT 2013
Hi Stuart and Peter: I never concern myself with the appearance a product website. Being in the OSS world I am quite use to seeing some of the worse websites ever built. Many of these programmers have no concept of design and composition. I have designed sites for many friends who previously had pages that harken back to 1995...but OTOH that does not imply the quality of products. Stuart, if you look at your Basic application developers product source (the name escapes me), assuming nothing has changed in their website's appearance; true 2000 retro, most potential customers, drift by, forgetting the product and even its name. The product developers may spend thousands on development and it would only take a few hundred to bring their site up to post 2010. ...And it would definitely increase their sales...but they appear blissfully unaware of this fact, but maybe they are trying to make some sort of statement. When MariaDB is compared to MySQL its performance is better: http://blog.mariadb.org/sysbench-oltp-mysql-5-6-vs-mariadb-10-0/ Traditionally, OSS products prove to be better, in the long run. (Linux servers vs Microsoft servers) With the potential of thousands of developers, products have a quick debugging and features cycle. Check out the comparisons between OpenOffice, purchased by Oracle and the fork LibraOffice. LibraOffice is pulling away in features, performance and adoption. On a personal note, I have worked with Oracle for many years and even though their database is massively over-priced, their products tend to be very good. Oracles' purchase of their chief competitor, MySQL was a huge coup. The dynamics of Oracle and MySQL are polar opposites and Oracle is now making MySQL just another mini-me. For myself, I find it sad to see the once most used and loved database being converted and bleed of every possible drop of blood...and if MySQL future profits, somehow do not live up to expectations it will be unceremoniously dumped. The truth is that not everyone will abandon MySQL...there will always be dedicated supporters but all the leading edge, new age and startup companies are dropping it and/or are slowly phasing out the product. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:04 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] It is time to dump MySQL - NOT I followed the link in that article to http://blog.smartbear.com/open-source/5-reasons-to-stick-with-mysql/ I find the second page makes a much more compelling argument for NOT dumping your current investment MySQL. -- Stuart On 11 Jul 2013 at 16:32, Jim Lawrence wrote: > There are many compelling reason to dump MySQL and those reason grow and > become stronger every day. I will predict that within five years only those > developer scared of any future change will still be using the product. > > According to some monitoring, MySQL downloads have been dropping at an > incremental increasing rate per year. This year was three percent, next year > may be five or even eight percent and so on. We have not witnessed such a > exodus since IE 6. > > Here is a list of five compelling reasons to move on. > http://blog.smartbear.com/open-source/5-reasons-its-time-to-ditch-mysql/ > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com