Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair? 334
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions the effect recent developments in the MySQL community will have on MySQL's future in the wake of Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Even before Oracle announced its buyout, there were signs of strain within the MySQL community, with key MySQL employees exiting and forks of the MySQL codebase arising, including Widenius' MariaDB. Now Widenius' Oracle-less Open Database Alliance adds further doubt as to which branch of MySQL will be considered 'official' going forward. 'Forks are a fact of life in the open source community, and arguably an entirely healthy one,' McAllister writes. 'Oracle just better hope it doesn't end up on the wrong side of the fork.' To do so, he suggests Oracle will have to regain the the trust and support of the MySQL community — in other words, 'stop acting like Oracle.'"
Cue postgres fan bois (Score:3, Funny)
In 3, 2, 1
Re:Cue postgres fan bois (Score:1, Funny)
Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are junk compared to Microsoft SQL Server.
Re:Cue postgres fan bois (Score:5, Funny)
It is more accurate to characterize the recent burst of minor MySQL variations as a sporking of the code base.
Fork it (Score:5, Funny)
If I could only think up a cliched pun using the term forked, I would be sure to get the converted +5 funny mod.
If only.
What the fork? (Score:5, Funny)
Just tell me which one to use for the salad, so my ignorance doesn't trip me up like it did with that bidet that one time.
Re:This need not be Bad News. (Score:1, Funny)
This is the most poetic comment I have ever read on Slashdot. It calmed me.
Re:Cue postgres fan bois (Score:5, Funny)
Or in the case of MySQL, a featureset at all. I keed! I keed!
Re:Fork it (Score:3, Funny)
If I could only think up a cliched pun using the term forked ...
You're way ahead of me. I'm stuck at figuring out what "wrong side of the fork" means. Where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?
Re:Cue postgres fan bois (Score:5, Funny)
Re:PostgreSQL: Why don't people use it that much? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oracle needs to cater to business not the commu (Score:3, Funny)
haha that sounded like the 'things I care more about than you' rant by Dr Cox in Scrubs! ... oh wait, I'm the only one that watches that show
Re:Cue postgres fan bois (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Database abstraction layers people (Score:1, Funny)
I've had it, from now on I'm going to choose my web stack based purely on the acronym I get. Marketeers take note...
Pherlathon is a new language I just envisioned, combining the most maligned aspects of PHP, Perl and Python. I think it'd be really popular.
Re:MySql (Score:3, Funny)
(And really, who gives a !@#% about that scenario?)
Why sqlite of course! And they are unbeatable in that niche.
Re:Cue postgres fan bois (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cue postgres fan bois (Score:3, Funny)
ChairSQL.
if you do things it doesn't like, it hurls a table at you, though.