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A billion? That is NUTS.

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 82.192.250.149] on January 16, 2008 02:39 PM
MySQL is a good program, but no way is it worth a billion dollars.

Some good might come out of this. MySQL AB (the company) does some pretty stupid things with MySQL; for example, the default installation uses non-ANSI operators (e.g. for logical or) and the default collation sequence for characters is Swedish. Sun will presumably fix lunacy like that.

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