From: Rick James
Date: December 4 2012 6:46pm
Subject: RE: MySQL dying?
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Oracle is investing a lot into improvements in MySQL and releasing most of =
it in the Community version. =20

Meanwhile, MariaDB is a serious contender.  It is a drop-in replacement for=
 MySQL.  And Percona's Xtradb (included in MariaDB) is a drop-in replacemen=
t for InnoDB.  If Oracle did something nasty, there are exit strategies tha=
t do not involve porting to some other RDBMS.

I say "don't worry".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Abgarian [mailto:abvk@stripped]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 10:03 AM
> To: mysql.
> Subject: Re: MySQL dying?
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> A touch of realism: we are all dying.   For some, it may take a while,
> hopefully.
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> On 04.12.2012, at 9:53, Tim Pownall wrote:
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> > Mysql is used by just about every web host and is one of the most
> > common database servers around the world. I do not have any intent to
> > stop using mysql unless they start charging for it which I do not
> think will happen.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim Pownall
> > Sr. Linux Systems Monitoring
> > Hostgator.com LLC
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Anthony Pace
> <anthony.pace@stripped>wrote:
> >
> >> I have heard that due to Oracle taking over, the OS community is
> >> shifting to other type of DB's .
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >>
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> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim Pownall
> > GNU/Linux Systems Monitoring
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