[Asterisk-Users] MySQL Licence may be changing..

[Chris Albertson]

--- PJ Welsh <pj at cassens.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:22:56AM -0800, Chris Albertson wrote:
> ...
> > There are several other very good free SQL DBMSes.  One of them
> > is actually supported by one of the world's largest software
> > companies, SAP.  
> > 
> > SAP and MySQL signed an agreement where MySQL will co-market SAPDB
> > and the name will change toi MaxDB.  MaxDB is be marketed as a
> > "step up" from MySQL to an "enterprize class" DBMS. 
> > It will be interresting to see how the MySQL people will define
> > MySQL, they surely will not try and tell people it is "enterprize
> > class".  Perhaps they will be truthfull now and sell it as a 
> > light--weight product.
> 
> At the Portland Open Source Conference, the MySQL guys basically
> called the SAPdb crap. They were going to take some of the good
> aspects of it an put it into MySQL. They said the SAPdb was not
> extensible in the form it is now.
> 
> Of course, they never actually called it "crap" that is my summary of
> the conversation that I heard.

I don't know much about SAPDB except that if you buy an SAP system
and don't have a preferred DBMS, like Oracle or something you get
SAPDB

But I do know, first hand, that if you need extensiblity then
PostgreSQL is the way to go.  It's designed like Asterisk in
that users can add their own funtions and extend the SQL with
new data types and operators.

But I didn't intend to start a DBMS war.  Just wanted to point out
that IMO it's best to a favor one over another.  Best to remain
independent.

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