Locating the Real MySQL 335
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kdawson
from the place-your-bets dept.
from the place-your-bets dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In a blog post, Patrick Galbraith, an ex-core engineer on the MySQL Server team, raises the question: "What is the official branch of MySQL?" With Monty Widenius having left Sun and forked off MySQL for MariaDB, and Brian Aker running the Drizzle fork inside of Sun, where is the official MySQL tree? Sun may own the trademark, but it looks like there is doubt as to whether they are still the maintainers of the actual codebase after their $1B acquisition of the code a year ago. Smugmug's Don MacAskhill, who is the keynote at the upcoming MySQL Conference, has commented that he is now using the Percona version of MySQL, and is no longer relying on Sun's."
Re:Selling an open-source software business? (Score:5, Funny)
What did Sun buy exactly? Sales and support?
A bridge!
Hello Mr Sun CEO, I have a bridge here to sell you! Best deal you'll ever make. Pinky swear.
Will the real MySQL (Score:5, Funny)
please stand up?
Re:Selling an open-source software business? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The real MySQL is... (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, but those steaming turds are just the ticket for a consultant looking to warm his hands.
I'm a consultant, and I love steaming turds!
Re:Will the real MySQL (Score:5, Funny)
The real MySQL has learned the first lesson of not being seen: not to stand up.
Re:Ironic (Score:1, Funny)
Here we have the one shinning open source alternative to commercial databases
Bart: Don't you mean shining?
Willie: Shh! You wanna get sued?
Database software? (Score:5, Funny)
What, haven't you people heard of Access??
Re:Will the real MySQL (Score:5, Funny)
Hi, my name is
What, my name is
Who, my name is
My Sequel.
Re:PostgreSQL (Score:3, Funny)
Here [lmgtfy.com] are some sites that might help.
Re:The real MySQL is... (Score:2, Funny)
big turds for the money sewer.
And that's why, as a consultant, I'm always "flush" with cash!
Re:MariaDB link is incorrect (Score:5, Funny)
If they can't find the real MySQL, sounds like they need a unique identifier with an index...
Where is the confusion? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Database software? (Score:3, Funny)
What, haven't you people heard of Access??
Have you heard of FileMaker Pro??
Re:PostgreSQL (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know why this is marked as Funny... there are far too many programs or even webapps (PHP ones in particular) that only work with MySQL.
The problem is that the Funny mod can't differentiate between when someone is laughing with you or at you.
Re:Database software? (Score:2, Funny)
What, haven't you people heard of Access??
No. At my company, we use Excel.
Re:The real MySQL is... (Score:5, Funny)
a. the tech is solid (typically mention Wikipedia for that one)
So do you edit the Wikipedia page just before you tell your boss look at it?
Re:Will the real MySQL (Score:1, Funny)
Please don't tell me you actually say "sequel" in public.
Re:The sociology of MySQL is interesting. (Score:4, Funny)
You know something is wrong when a discussion of MySQL is dominated by comments about PostgreSQL.
Or you're on Slashdot. My guess: when the editors see the MySQL article in the queue, they think, "We haven't had a MySQL/PostgreSQL flamewar in a while. Let's post this!"