Holy SQL!!!!!

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008, Jerry McBride wrote:
>On Wednesday 16 January 2008 10:07:37 am Ben Duncan wrote:
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7611
>>
>> Aint' that some news!!!
>
>I guess it's better this way, than to have something the likes of Microsoft 
>buy them...

Sun has been doing some very interesting things, probably most
notably for FOSS is their ZFS file system.

>I love mysql and always pointed it out as being one of the crown jewels of the 
>GPL and OSS... I wonder how this will play out in the future? 

Perhaps Sun's acquisition will clear up some of the wierdness in
the MySQL licensing, which has NOT been GPL.

Licensing, and much more mature support for stored procedures,
triggers, and SQL standards compliance have led me to use
postgresql for serious database back ends.

Bill
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