MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)
The InnoDB 'storage engine,' which remains open-source software, is firmly in Mickos' plus column. 'We renewed our contract with Oracle for several years,' he said. In the minus column are the no-cost database products such as Oracle's Express Edition or IBM's DB2 Community Edition, which Mickos labeled as 'crippleware,' designed to hook customers on full-featured but expensive versions."
Posted Apr 26, 2006 23:57 UTC (Wed)
by aotheoverlord (guest, #3993)
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I'm sure many of us might like that, but we can't expect the competition to sit back and simply watch, surely!
Posted Apr 27, 2006 8:24 UTC (Thu)
by jmansion (guest, #36515)
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Is it really that Oracle, IBM and Sybase are concerned about mySQL anyway? Or are they more worried about SqlServer Express? Microsoft have had a low-end redistributable SQLServer runtime for some time, but the new edition looks very handy.
Posted Apr 28, 2006 10:27 UTC (Fri)
by denials (subscriber, #3413)
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Posted Apr 28, 2006 13:00 UTC (Fri)
by jmansion (guest, #36515)
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Well, those of us who marvelled at the sheer unbridled horsepower of an SMP Sparcserver 10 would probably have been over the moon with a single top of the line Opteron and 'only' 1GB of database cache. ;-/
I would've thought a single Opteron could give most small RAID arrays a pretty good kicking, anyway.
Oh now come on; what are proprietary software vendors supposed to do? Sit back and watch while OpenSource kills their very businesses?MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)
They might be crippled, but the capacity of these systems (and the ones from MS and Sybase) is pretty impressive compared to mid end transactional systems of even a few years ago: I think its churlish to complain from a user perspective. But then Mickos has a specific agenda here.MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)
DB2's free version has a maximum limit of 2 CPUs, 4GB of RAM, and an MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)
unlimited database size, which may be "crippled" (what an ugly term) in
comparison to its enterprise edition product -- but I'm sure that limit is
more than what 99% of MySQL databases run on.
Oracle, on the other hand, is capped at 1CPU and 1GB of RAM, which is
hardly enough room to run Oracle in...
Ah well, talking smack is just more proof that MySQL AB is a real
profit-oriented corporation. You don't see a PostgreSQL CEO making these
kinds of statements, because PostgreSQL is a community project and doesn't
have a CEO; they don't need to worry about market share, profits, or media
coverage.
> Oracle, on the other hand, is capped at 1CPU and 1GB of RAM, which is MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)
hardly enough room to run Oracle in...