MySQL AB and SAP AG Partner to Build New Open Source Databases

MySQL AB and SAP AG Partner to Build New Open Source Databases

> they cop a lot of flack from the DB community because they don't do things the old fashioned way

So now the Newspeak for "fundamentally correct" and "reliable and efficient" is "old fashioned"? Guess you are friends with the New Economy guys, "we don't need no stinkin' revenue"...

> they tackle these things very maturely

I guess ignoring the issues instead of scaling back the hype is considered mature nowadays...

> users and authors of other databases claimed mysql was rubbish because it didn't support transactions, their claims were simply beaten down with the facts

I guess these facts are the facts that programmers are more likely to procedurally code integrity in the application than to realise they need to learn databases?

> transaction support was integrated at a later date anyway, though for the right reasons - easing transition from existing SQL databases that used them.

So transactions are not important on themselves? I hope I don't depend on any data stored by you...

> not making a huge fuss over pointless issues like a name.

I guess lying by saying you're a SQL DBMS while you're neither SQL nor DBMS is just a pointless issue...

And then people wonder at SCO, Microsoft, Enron, Monica Lewinsky and Florida...