Magnus Lycka napisał(a): > For those who don't know, Oracle bought a small Finnish > company which developed the transaction-aware table- > backend for MySQL. As far as I understand, this means > nothing for GPL licensed MySQL installations, but if > MySQL sells commercial MySQL-database with transaction > support, I guess they need to share their incomes with > Oracle now, and I suppose Oracle is completely in charge > of future development and price setting for InnoDB. Of > course, MySQL has support for swapping table backends, > and the logical next step might be to use the major open > source transactional low level database Berkeley DB, > which is also dual licensed, and developed by SleepyCat. > Unfortuantely, Oracle just bought them... I'm sure there > are other ways out though. MySQL owns MaxDB, which was > previously SAP DB, a derivate ot the German Adabas D. > I'm not sure how easy it is to rip out the table back- > end of that though. I guess it's not built to be a > separate component.
They just hired Jim Starkey. Perhaps MySQL AB hopes he will write a transactional engine for MySQL, as he previously wrote one for Interbase (which is known to be one of the best a man could imagine). Anyway, we got far off topic, so we better go somewhere else. -- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
