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Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by mbreese » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:16 PM UTC

luriel wrote: post #7

accarrino wrote: post #2

the line between what Oracle considers open and closed get fuzzier all the time. makes being a developer a pain in the ass.

No, it is easy: avoid anything touched by Oracle like the plague.

Unfortunately, that includes hardware too... A friend had 3 out of 13 Oracle servers die with random memory errors (persistent). Of course, if they had a 10K+ service contract they'd be happy to help.

Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:17 PM UTC

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Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:18 PM UTC

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Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by ucee054 » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:23 PM UTC

Don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=39m25s

Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by siloraptor » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:24 PM UTC

skymt wrote: post #6

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #4

LibreSQL, where are you? :(

Isn't that what MariaDB is for?

Yes, Drizzle and MariaDB are two MySQL forks that are gaining good momentum. Let hope another OpenOffice -> LibreOffice move can be done again.

Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by dj2stein9 » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:27 PM UTC

As mentioned in the comments see MariaDB (http://mariadb.org/), an open source fork of MySQL from before the Oracle acquisition. Like Hudson, MySQL will live on.

Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by grandalf » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:32 PM UTC

Let's hope someone forks it and teaches Oracle a lesson.

Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by ddon » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:36 PM UTC

grandalf wrote: post #17

Let's hope someone forks it and teaches Oracle a lesson.

MariaDB is already a fork of MySQL, and many developers from MySQL now developing MariaDB.

Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by siloraptor » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:36 PM UTC

grandalf wrote: post #17

Let's hope someone forks it and teaches Oracle a lesson.

Four known forks so far (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#Forks)

Re: Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

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Post by mtgx » Sun, Sep 02, 2012, 4:38 PM UTC

It seems Oracle is on a trend to kill everything open source they've acquired from Sun. Java seems to be the only one left, and it would've happened already if they won the trial with Google, but I'm sure they'll do something equally dumb in the future to kill finally Java, too.