Embedded SQL thoughts

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
> Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> I'm very suspicious of anything related to Oracle (e.g. MySQL) given their
>> history with open source.  The most recent disappointment for me was their
>> changes in OpenSolaris.
>>  
>>
> Could you elaborate on the OpenSolaris?

Not a lot as I was just beginning to get into it as zfs seems
like a great tool for managing large storage systems.  Since
Apple dropped any zfs support from Snow Leopard, it only leaves
FreeBSD as something I'm interested in.  I was kinda hoping that
Apple would go from read-only zfs support in Leopard to full
read-write, but it didn't happen (the Mac Mini server is very
tempting to me).

Apparently they have changed their licensing/support policies,
and I think that there's now an open source fork, but would have
to do some google searching to see what's really happening.

There has been some mention of this on groklaw.net as well, but
that's mainly been on the legal/FOSS aspects.  Groklaw has had
some articles on the Oracle/Google/Java suit recently too.

Bill
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