Posted on 04/26/2009 9:26:32 AM PDT by libh8er
Much to the industry’s surprise, Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion following the breakdown in talks with IBM. Sun’s future appeared to be uncertain and few expected Oracle to be waiting patiently in the wings (although it does explain why Sun was prepared to walk away from IBM’s offer).
There are several good reasons why Oracle wanted Sun…
* Sun’s hardware and backup solutions could be good for Oracle’s software * the Java programming language * VirtualBox Virtual Machine software * OpenOffice * and MySQL - the world’s most popular open-source database.
Whilst MySQL and Oracle are not exactly direct competitors, those of a more cynical disposition would expect Oracle to kill off the competing database. That could be difficult since MySQL is open-source and anyone can contribute to the application. However, Oracle could starve the project of resources. Influxis.com
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Well there is an different Open Source database..
Ask yourself if Larry Ellison is a buddy of Bill Gates and you will have the answer to your question.
If Oracle has their head on straight, what they'll do is add some -- but not all -- proprietary Oracle extensions to MySQL. People who start out with MySQL and who use the non-standard Oracle stuff in it will have a greased path to Oracle if they ever get really big. |
...which, if everyone using MySQL were forced to switch to, would cost billions... it would be like saying everyone using PCV pipe in their building has to change it out for PEX. Not too technically difficult, but still a huge expense and hassle.
Great to those who knows Postgre or others...
I’ve got quite a bit of experience with PostgreSQL, including with databases with hundreds of millions of records in them and installed on both Linux and Windows systems.
I’m using MySQL and to be honest, I prefer it over SQL Server or Oracle..
I’ve been happy with PostgreSQL and had experience with an earlier Postgres-related database that helps, too. My experiences with SQL Server have been pretty good but I found Oracle to be too quirky.
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The thing about MySQL is that it's relatively simple, which means that applications using SQL to talk to it don't use a lot of proprietary extensions. Such applications can be migrated to other database platforms fairly easily.