How Real Is The Open Source Database Fever?

J. Misael G. points out a NewsForge article on recent moves by some database vendors to loudly release (some of) their products as open source, asking the vital question "How much open source beer are these newcomers bringing to the database bash, or are they simply coming in and asking where the cups are?" (Slashdot and NewsForge are both part of OSTG.)

Saturday Night Open Source Fever?

[Anonymous Coward]

How Real Is The Open Source Database Fever?

I don't know. Um, so real that CowboyNeal gets dressed up in a white suit for a hard Saturday Night of coding? And rolls his hands wildly one over the other while waiting for the thing to compile?

Re:It's called being a good editor

[oexeo]

> OK, I've determined a conflict of interest exists. Now what?

Removing the stupid pyramid scheme from your sig would be a good start.

My favorite bit

[Otter]

"We think it is good news for users, and we welcome these products to the open source world, Ingres, and the Linux world, Sybase," Mickos said. "We have predicted for some time that this would happen. It validates the MySQL business model. Two years ago, people said MySQL was a toy. Now, apparently everyone wants to be a toy!"

They said that MySQL sucks...now they're open-source, just like us, so their products must now suck also!

After all this open source beer, please tell me

[Anonymous Coward]

...where the open source urinal is.

Re:but dont you just love IT managers

[eddy the lip]

"... employee of sed company...and sed company wanted you to install... after sed contract runs out..."

I think you've been hanging out at the command line too long..

Re:I'm sure Oracle's nice and all, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Reminds me of a time top-3 internet company was interested in buying a .com I was involved in.

The guy doing the technical evaluation looked at our Oracle based architecture, turned to our CFO and said "you shouldn't have let them do that". "Why not?" the CFO said, "Oracle is known for scaling well."

"well, it may be true that Oracle scales technologically, but it doesn't scale financially" - was the response.

re: your sig - I can't resist

[Planesdragon]

All my foes are spelling or grammar Nazis.

"nazi" should be lower-case, since you're using it as a generic noun and not a proper noun. (Spelling or grammar Nazis would be german-language, anyway.)

Re:I'm sure Oracle's nice and all, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

> "No one ever got fired for choosing Oracle."

I suspect an IBM manager would get the axe should they choose Oracle ;)

Re:but dont you just love IT managers

[Anonymous Coward]

> Then, after sed contract runs out, you sell them your software package for use with their existing MySQL server.

i'm sure someone has a perl of wisdom to get out of this awk-ward situation