[asterisk-users] PostgreSQL is asterisk friendly with it?

[Sherwood McGowan]

I agree with Steve, I've had a couple of people speak with me about
concerns of MySQL's new ownership, but I stand by the same reasons
Steve does....MySQL will not be going anywhere, and if it does,
someone'll just fork and keep it going under a new name.



On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Steve Kennedy
<steve-asterisk at gbnet.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:31:55PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
>> > change from mySQL to PostgreSQL.
>> >> I love mySQL but am getting very concerned about i'ts new owners.
>> >> Should I be able to move all my realtime stuff to PostgreSQL is it fully
> [snippage and probably off topic]
>
> Why are you worried re the future of MySQL and it's new owners Oracle.
>
>  a) MySQL is open source so anyone can take a fork and continue
>  development.
>
>  b) Oracle own InnoDB already which is the main storage engine for
>  MySQL.
>
>  c) Oracle dont have any low end DB products for start-ups etc.
>  Developer licenses may be free, but commercial use certainly isn't.
>
>  d) MySQL is now a business division within Oracle and MySQL (.com)
>  makes money.
>
>  e) Google have contributed a lot of code for MySQL v6, I'm sure they'd
>  take it on if Oracle in madness decided to drop it.
>
>  f) I'm sure Oracle will push Oracle on Sun hardware/Solaris for high-end
>  DB platforms and optimise the two so the performance stats look great
>  and so they'll develop a migration platform so high-end MySQL users can
>  easily migrate to Oracle when the need arises.
>
>
> Steve
>
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