Wow, so you are saying that MySQL is comparable to access eh? Have you looked at MySQL at all (I sure would hope so if you work for sun and are on a MySQL list)? Or maybe Wikipedia, Amazon, Cox Communications, craigslist, Ebay, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Orbitz, Twitter, Yahoo!, YouTube, etc., etc. have all been bamboozled into thinking this little trashy database works.
I agree that to get the support that MySQL now (or did) enjoys will be a difficult if not impossible task. But to try to degrade the software and the technological advances it has is truly naïve. I am sure that MS is shaking with fear for Access. Coming from Sun (I assume your email is for real), it would seem a bit dubious that you would cast MySQL in such a bad light since Sun paid how much to acquire MySQL? $1 billion in total consideration? Could we, the public, not see this as someone trying to make a deal that they make money on more palatable? Thank you, Shawn -----Original Message----- From: douglas.nel...@sun.com [mailto:douglas.nel...@sun.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:42 AM To: peter.braw...@earthlink.net Cc: "Bruno B. B. Magalhães"; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Help Save MySQL You guys are incredibly naive, Oracle has promised to support MySQL for the next 5 years. Who better to have stewardship of a database product then the leading database supplier. I think you guys have visions of grandeur to think you could spend this kind of effort or resources to build a better MySQL then Oracle. As for competing for market share against the Oracle product.. you guys have obviously never used the Oracle database it puts MySQL to shame in so many different ways and so many different levels. Keeping MySQL around serves many purposes for Oracle very nicely.. one of my favorites is the screws to IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's Access... couple of real winners there I tell ya. Putting MySQL in the hands of half cocked want-a-be's would surely be the death blow to MySQL faster then Oracle would ever hope too.. should they decide to. So at least for the next 5 years sit back and enjoy the ride! Thanks Doug <snip> -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
