<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 October 2010 10:16, Mike Kallies <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">mike.kallies@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10/25/2010 6:58 PM, Sadiq Saif wrote:<br>
> I just got the .deb packages from their site, running smoothly on my<br>
> Ubuntu 10.10 system.<br>
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> Also, I don't know much about MySQL, but isn't it the industry standard<br>
> for web hosting databases etc.?<br>
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</div>MySQL is great. It's not going to disappear, it may fork though.<br></blockquote><div><br>I am already starting to hear and read a lot more noise about PostgreSQL as an alternative backend with a community that has long been in the shadows of mySQL. It's quite possible that there may be more activity to make it even more suitable as a mySQL replacement.<br>
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IMHO, Oracle should sell the copyright on the MySQL codebase, it's a<br>
conflict of interest to keep it... it's a competing product and it has<br>
real value.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>It *was* a competing product. Now it can be a loss-leader, and Oracle's way to take on Microsoft in the low end.<br><br>Likely won't get sold.<br> <br></div></div>