Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 18:49, Chris wrote:
> > And since MySQL already has got the upperhand in terms of marketing,
> > Oracle would buy MySQL to make it as the low-end alternative. Never mind
> > the lack/immature features in MySQL such as stored proc or trigger.
>
> Mysql 5 has stored procedures and triggers.
>
> The fact that you have to change between different "storage engines" to
> use transactions properly etc is a little weird (and some of the new
> engines are just bizarre), but that's beside the point.
>
> 90% of open-source software is written to use only mysql (and it's not
> easy to switch to another db) - search freshmeat or sourceforge for
> anything postgresql related.. not much there.
>
> Then, even if you do write something to use postgresql a lot of hosts
> don't support it anyway ('mysql is good enough').. so you're stuck.

Well, I guess the moment all the hoster's have to buy commercial licenses for
providing a database they'll switch to PG in no time - or charge more for the
people who absolutely need mysql.
Maybe it's time to write a sophisticated "mysql to postgresql" automation
tool....

UC

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