Yeah, interesting times. Oracle buys Innobase, Sun buys MySQL. Seems an odd move, but maybe they're just wanting to cover the bases. MS SQL, DB2, and Oracle have large locked-in bases, but making new sales will be more about marketing than any technical or liability issue now.
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Yeah, interesting times. Oracle buys Innobase, Sun buys MySQL. Seems an odd move, but maybe they're just wanting to cover the bases. MS SQL, DB2, and Oracle have large locked-in bases, but making new sales will be more about marketing than any technical or liability issue now.
Jeremy Dunck - 17th January 2008 12:55 - #
Also remember that MySQL has almost got Falcon out of the door, so the position InnoDB holds is at most tenuous.
Then again, I'm a PostgreSQL person :-)