That's just bad, bad news. I was hoping that now that MySQL is owned by Oracle, it would be killed swiftly and efficiently.
MySQL is a really shoddy product, with silent data corruption bugs going all the way to early 2000s; equivalent of Oracle's OS authentication is non-existent, in my work with MySQL I've determined that in addition to bugs and non-standard SQL implementation, the whole product is simply half-cooked. What is it with all these "release-early, release often" half-cooked stuff? Is this all part of the "industry best practice" (read: "me too") syndrome? For the bugs I'm referring to, inetersted parties might want to have a look at: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/11/oops-we-did-it-again-mysql-51-released.html Between MySQL and PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL deserves to win, because it's also free, easy, and doesn't have as many bugs. --- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:46:20 +0200 To: ug-chosug at opensolaris.org Subject: [ug-chosug] Future of MySQL Another point has been added, position #3: http://www.oracle.com/ad/images/SUN_LJE2SunCust2_2322sec.jpg _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right from Hotmail?. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:092009
