http://www.dbms2.com/2008/01/16/the-blogosphere-writes-about-sun-buying-mysql/ Choices in data management and analysis Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:52:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.dbms2.com/2008/01/16/the-blogosphere-writes-about-sun-buying-mysql/#comment-71345 Engagement marketing : Strategic Messaging Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:40:32 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2008/01/16/the-blogosphere-writes-about-sun-buying-mysql/#comment-71345 [...] admit how long I’d gone without programming until I hacked around a bit in WordPress.) And as Sun’s recent purchase of MySQL illustrates, open source is a very big [...] [...] admit how long I’d gone without programming until I hacked around a bit in WordPress.) And as Sun’s recent purchase of MySQL illustrates, open source is a very big [...]

]]> http://www.dbms2.com/2008/01/16/the-blogosphere-writes-about-sun-buying-mysql/#comment-68167 Daniel Weinreb Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:43:23 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2008/01/16/the-blogosphere-writes-about-sun-buying-mysql/#comment-68167 For what it's worth, the buzz that I usually hear about MySQL is that it was written by a bunch of people who were not experienced in DBMS technology, and as a result is is unreliable when used at production scale. This is as compared to Postgres, which was certainly written by people well-versed in DBMS technology. However, this is all second-hand so don't make too much of it. For what it’s worth, the buzz that I usually hear about MySQL is that it was written by a bunch of people who were not experienced in DBMS technology, and as a result is is unreliable when used at production scale. This is as compared to Postgres, which was certainly written by people well-versed in DBMS technology. However, this is all second-hand so don’t make too much of it.

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