Re: SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB

Couldn't agree more:
<tom wrote>
Just between us chickens, I hope they do spend multiple man-years trying
to merge those two codebases. It'll keep them distracted from
accomplishing anything useful .
</tom wrote>

Tom Lane wrote:

> Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
>
>>There's a multi-year plan to "bring the code bases closer together" which
>>sounds like one of those big projects that always make me nervous.
>
>
> Just between us chickens, I hope they do spend multiple man-years trying
> to merge those two codebases. It'll keep them distracted from
> accomplishing anything useful ;-).
>
> I only went to a couple of the MySQL talks at O'Reilly earlier this
> month, but I could not help noticing that not one word was said about
> SAP in those talks, while plenty was said about their development plans
> for the MySQL codebase. Whatever the marketing guys may think, I
> believe Monty et al intend to press straight ahead with improving their
> own code.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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