Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 75.164.145.201]
on August 09, 2007 05:43 AM
PostgreSQL is mainstream, Ingres is now fully open-source (GPL) and both are industrial-strength. (Ingres also has a big slice of mindshare amongst academics, a major group of open source software users.) MySQL is under serious pressure and one wrong move could doom it the way poor decisions doomed mSQL in earlier days. Who needs a restrictive database company, if the only sizable benefit is a faster database that is no longer that much faster? There could also be a code-fork, as it is GPLed. All it would take is for the fork to recapture the old strengths, and who would bother with the original?
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 75.164.145.201] on August 09, 2007 05:43 AM#