With sun's repeated loss I am not sure how long it can survive without merging 
or being bought out. 

I switched most of my DBs to PostgreSQL couple of years ago because of minor 
performance and index corruption issues with MySQL. 

--
Karthik Poobalasubramanian
Louisiana Board of Regents
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kart...@la.gov
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On Jan 4, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> Maybe you guys know..
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dustin Puryear 
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:50 AM
> To: lu...@lugoj.org
> Subject: RE: [LUGOJ] [Fwd: Help save MySQL; Sign the petition]
> 
> I must be missing something, but isn't MySQL open source? Sure, MySQL AB
> had a proprietary thingie here or there and professional services, but
> otherwise the community can still do what it wants with MySQL. So why
> all the hoopla I've been seeing about MySQL?
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lugoj-boun...@lists.lugoj.org
> [mailto:lugoj-boun...@lists.lugoj.org] On Behalf Of Robert Lewis
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:26 AM
> To: lu...@lugoj.org
> Subject: [LUGOJ] [Fwd: Help save MySQL; Sign the petition]
> 
> Have you all seen this yet? The Sun purchasse by Oracle is being held up
> 
> by the EU with this being a central reason. Personally I'd like to see 
> MySQL given a bunch of cash like the baby bells was and give it a chance
> 
> to truly remain open.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:      Help save MySQL; Sign the petition
> Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:47:27 +0100 (CET)
> From:         mo...@helpmysql.org
> To:   undisclosed-recipients:;
> 
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am contacting you because you have in the past shown interest in
> MySQL and from that I assume you are interested in the future
> well-being of MySQL.
> 
> Now you have a unique opportunity to make a difference.  By signing
> the petition at http://www.helpmysql.org you can help affect the
> future of MySQL as an Open Source database.
> 
> You can find more information of this on my latest blog post at:
> http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html
> 
> Help us spread the world about this petition!
> http://www.helpmysql.org is available in 18 languages and every vote
> is important, independent of from where in the world it comes!
> If you know people that are using MySQL, please contact them and
> ensure they also sign the petition!
> 
> Regards,
> Monty
> Creator of MySQL
> 
> PS: If you already have signed the petition or know about it, sorry for
>    reminding you about this! Because of the importance of this issue,
>    I am trying to contact every person that I have ever communicated
>    with regarding MySQL.
> 
> 
> 
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