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The hair on my neck still stands up when thinking about dealing with Oracle (and Sun) contracting, purchasing, and sales teams in the 90's.
Don't forget IBM
Never. F###ing. Again.
What I take away from this is that they are (or were, until recently) still running production systems on MySQL 5.6...
Perhaps it's due to me being in the PostgreSQL camp, but what happened to MariaDB? I was convinced that's where MySQL developers went and that's where development proceeded, while MySQL was just half dead, because Oracle did not care about it.
When you consider the network effect of all the stacks already heavily invested in MySQL, all Oracle really needed to do was put in a modicum of effort to MySQL to stave off the MariaDB migrations (and from my understanding they've put in quite a bit more than a modicum).
Lastly, Postgres is an interesting player. Migrating from MySQL to Postgres might be a scarier prospect than to MariaDB, but since the Oracle acquisition a lot of MySQL-veterans were looking for something non-MySQL for new projects and in that I get the sense Postgres beat out MariaDB.
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Wow. Why don't they use in-house Google databases, which are supposedly vastly more scalable than MySQL?
Because there is a substantial cost to such migrations. If it works don't fix it.
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I guess one could dream of the remote possibility that Facebook outright acquires Oracle. It seems like a weird match, but it'd give FB a toehold in a lot of verticals that it currently has no presence in. Whatever criticisms you have of FB, it's at least a pretty open source friendly company.
What would happen to Oracle's infamous legal department then?
My old-man brain still can't compute this statement: "MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle" . I know this is now factually true, but late-90s me keeps looking over my shoulder and freaking out.
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Oracle has a very complete and much cheaper cloud solution relative to AWS. I've begun migrating my own projects over to their cloud. The savings on egress costs alone pays dividends.
I find the comments in this article very accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160149 > ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software. > Once something gets bought by them, you know it is done. Slowly, but surely. > They perform a function akin to the maggots that destroy cadavers in nature. Part of the overall ecosystem. > ORA stopped being a tech co a while ago, now it is a finance play. Use cash to buy a…
Perhaps it's due to me being in the PostgreSQL camp, but what happened to MariaDB? I was convinced that's where MySQL developers went and that's where development proceeded, while MySQL was just half dead, because Oracle did not care about it.
It is fair to say Oracle did not invest in ease of Oracle->MySQL migration but they have been making a steady progress on making MySQL better database for modern applications