they don't stop its existence of being opensource but
* OpenSuSE is switching to MariaDB * Fedora *has* switched to MariaDB * RHEL 7 is switiching to MariaDB well, a more complete list https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariadb/ the reasons for Fedora https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB > The original company behind MySQL, MySQL AB, were bought out by Sun which > was then bought by Oracle. Recent changes made by Oracle indicate they are > moving the MySQL project to be more closed. They are no longer publishing any > useful information about security issues (CVEs), and they are not providing > complete regression tests any more, and a very large fraction of the mysql bug > database is now not public proven by http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-34.html after a decade using MySQl in production, in the past there you could see bugs fixed in the next release and consider how they affect you * now you see nothing, you get no unit-tests for most of the fixed bugs * new features are going mostly in "MySQl enterprise" well, the core of MySQL is OpenSource, but the only reason is that Oracle can't change this fact, if the would be able they would change it and the current MySQLl developemtn is more closed source than free software at all Am 17.09.2013 00:13, schrieb Jorge Bastos: > I don't believe that MySQL stop its existence of being opensource. > MySQL is probably the largest opensource projects that is used in almost > everything. > > Don't think that'll happen, and if it does, there's another opensource > project ready to take MySQL place and don't think oracle wants to lose that. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Reindl Harald >> Sent: segunda-feira, 16 de Setembro de 2013 22:45 >> To: Mailing-List dbmail >> Subject: [Dbmail] >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migrat >> ion/ >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migration/ >> interesting for the ones using MySQL as backend >> >> *currently* keep your fingers from MaraDB in conext of DBMail there is >> a major bug which is fixed and will be in 5.5.33 release affecting >> *any* release ever happend, but after that keep in mind that nearly any >> major linux-distribution is switching and sooner or later Oracle MySQL >> become meaningless as any opensource project Orcale tocuhed is dying >> >> why not use MariaDB now: >> https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4978 >> >> as far as i can say the bug is really fixed, but let us wait for the >> 5.5.33 realease and confirm it by unit-tests >> >> special thanks to Paul providing a predictable test-case! >> _______________________________ >> >> BTW - do we have any number of the DBMail userbase? >> >> currently it feels like a niche in mail-systems but looking at what >> Paul made of it with 3.0/3.1 i never felt more confirmed that my >> decision to use it 2009 for my first production mail-system and build >> a eco-system around it than now >> >> honestly i love this piece of software for a lot of reasons
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
