Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 14 22:07:32 CDT 2013
On 2013-09-14 5:38 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Yeah, I think this could well be a game-changer. Particularly considering > that for most users of MySQL is a drop-in replacement, and then some > additional features tossed in. MySQL runs a majority of the world's websites. For developers of those sites to use MariaDB as a dropin replacement for MySQL, hosting providers have to provide MariaDB. So far that's not happening much at all. PB > > Arthur > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Peter Brawley > <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>wrote: > >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2013/09/12/google_mariadb_** >> mysql_migration/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migration/> >> >> This could be a game-changer. Google evidently has decided that the open >> source integrity of Monty's project outweighs Oracle's closed source >> development resources and the fact that MariaDB 10.0 is still alpha! >> >> Google senior systems engineer Jeremy Cole's quote "I'd really love to see >> a single MySQL community, I think that's more or less impossible under >> Oracle, I don't know if that's possible under MariaDB" makes me wonder if >> Google might try to buy MySQL from Oracle, and if Oracle won't sell, go >> into direct competition by publishing their SkySQL/MariaDB version for >> widespread use. >> >> PB >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >> > >