Oracle is investing a lot into improvements in MySQL and releasing most of it in the Community version.
Meanwhile, MariaDB is a serious contender. It is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. And Percona's Xtradb (included in MariaDB) is a drop-in replacement for InnoDB. If Oracle did something nasty, there are exit strategies that do not involve porting to some other RDBMS. I say "don't worry". > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Abgarian [mailto:a...@apple.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 10:03 AM > To: mysql. > Subject: Re: MySQL dying? > > A touch of realism: we are all dying. For some, it may take a while, > hopefully. > > On 04.12.2012, at 9:53, Tim Pownall wrote: > > > Mysql is used by just about every web host and is one of the most > > common database servers around the world. I do not have any intent to > > stop using mysql unless they start charging for it which I do not > think will happen. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tim Pownall > > Sr. Linux Systems Monitoring > > Hostgator.com LLC > > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Anthony Pace > <anthony.p...@utoronto.ca>wrote: > > > >> I have heard that due to Oracle taking over, the OS community is > >> shifting to other type of DB's . > >> > >> Any thoughts? > >> > >> -- > >> MySQL General Mailing List > >> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > >> To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tim Pownall > > GNU/Linux Systems Monitoring > > 610-621-9712 > > pownall...@gmail.com > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
