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- gimlik, on 04/18/2008, -8/+70I love lamp.
- MortalynFlux, on 04/18/2008, -2/+60There's always PostgreSQL. It's solid, free, and works with PHP. It's always good to have alternatives.
- lickmyback, on 04/18/2008, -3/+58I trust Sun with MySQL for some reason. I'm just surprised that the submitter didn't somehow work the word 'Sun' into their clever little title metaphor.
- bloodguard, on 04/18/2008, -2/+31If they're that worried then grab the latest GPL version and fork it into OpenMySQL.
- vvelox, on 04/18/2008, -3/+29FAPP
FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl - Herolint, on 04/18/2008, -1/+21I just use PostgreSQL. I like it a lot better anyway.
- solarwind24, on 04/18/2008, -1/+20I don't see the problem here. MySQL is open source. If SUN decides to screw it up, someone will keep it going for Linux for sure...
- Tyr7BE, on 04/18/2008, -1/+18Make no mistake, if MySQL starts dropping the ball, PostgreSQL's clustering support will be brought up to speed pretty quick.
- jfp51, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12Yes because we all know Sun never gave anything to the Open Source community (Open Office, Java, Open Solaris, etc....)
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+11MyOpenSQL
- ZachPruckowski, on 04/18/2008, -1/+12The reason you trust Sun is because they're one of the largest purveyors of Open Source Software, and a major backer of the FSF. They released Java under the GPL. They may be competing against Linux, but they believe in Open Source.
- bryxal, on 04/18/2008, -1/+11Fail
- JonForTheWin, on 04/18/2008, -1/+10Hi, my name is Postgres, and I couldn't read this article over the sound of how awesome I am.
- CaptalnObvious, on 04/18/2008, -2/+11obviously
- dfsjdkflasjk, on 04/18/2008, -0/+9"Will Sun solarize MySQL and stop lighting up LAMP?"
- skeeterbug84, on 04/18/2008, -2/+10Yes, but you still lost the great product it once was. You also will have lost the original developers and passion they had for the project.
- SocialPoison, on 04/18/2008, -3/+10Me
- ZachPruckowski, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8The Slashdot article was baseless skepticism. Current parts of MySQL will remain open source. Some new features of MySQL (mostly some backup wizard or something) will be closed source, but they're not aimed at the general user, and not part of the core MySQL database.
- deathtoartists, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6postgres implements more of the SQL definition anyway.
- diggcensored, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6No I don't see any difference, MYSQL is still free and GPL'd, and can be worked on as open source by the community
"MYSQL has already been gutted and the program is managed by SUN INC, not the open source community."
simply false, do you even know what GPL software is? nothing has been gutted from Mysql, did you even read the comments from the Ex-ceo of mysql who now works for sun on slashdot? He says sun is even leaning more to keeping it open source than the original authors, RTFcomment
You don't have to pay for mysql and from the remarks from the ex-CEO at slasht you will never have to pay for it, what is your point again? - cyberwiz01, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6But LAOP doesn't have as nice a ring to it.
- wellyuk, on 04/18/2008, -1/+7I guess you mustn't read the same stories on digg as me. Because you did, you would notice whenever someone makes a comment to the effect of "10 diggs and on the front page?", the comment is buried. Now that you've been a member of digg since 2006, you MUST have seen this occurrence happen, yet you still post a "35 diggs = frontpage" comment?
Why is this? Do you think you're special and wouldn't have your comment buried? I'm a little confused as to why people post these comments full well knowing their comment will be buried. - BrainInAJar, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6SNOR - solaris, nginx, oracle, ruby
- BrainInAJar, on 04/18/2008, -1/+7MySQL AB was a for-profit company too... what's your point?
- tnoy, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5All our storage at work is moving to Solaris machines using ZFS.
We're not as massive as some others, we're only around ~40TB right now (just my department). There are really not that many other options that are as cheap and easy to manage. We're in education, and Sun gives some very nice discounts. Our production webservers are Linux on Sun hardware, though. - AlgnPelotudo, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5like the ***** java, releasing its source. yeah.
- faster3200, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5Why? Do you not have the ability to download something that is free and completely legal?
- skeeterbug84, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5You can also do stored procs in C, Perl, and Python.
- winmywii, on 04/18/2008, -1/+6There is a pretty big MySQL following. Even if it goes closed, it won't die. Like you said, the previous GPL licensed versions will still be open.
- Lick, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4Who needs Sun, when we already have LAMPs?
- fac3less, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4Eh, not necessarily. If SUN pulled a stunt like that I think you would see a few core developers stay online. MySQL has a massive following of corporate clients as well -- it would be quite easy to raise sufficient funding to continue it's open source development.
- mythicflux, on 04/18/2008, -2/+6Then go use PWS/IIS and let the talented and capable people get back to work.
- ZachPruckowski, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4MySQL AB was a for-profit company before Sun bought it out. MySQL went from being owned by a for-profit company to another for-profit company. That's not the worry here. The worry is that in addition to supporting Windows and Linux on the servers they sell, Sun also sells Solaris. Specifically, people are worried that Sun will promote a Solaris-MySQL combo over a Linux-MySQL combo.
- MtheoryX, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4FAPP? For real?
- Lick, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4We don't need the sun, our lamps are working fine!
- PotatoSalad, on 04/18/2008, -1/+5FNPR
FreeBSD, nginx, PostgreSQL, Ruby
(just my preference) - MaverickAlex, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4There is a big difference between cheap and free.
- pdurod, on 04/18/2008, -3/+6Defense contractors, die hard Oracle DBA's, business owners that have tons of cobbled together CGI applications...
- BrainInAJar, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3I think those are new deployments ( id est, Linux is growing faster than Solaris ), not that it matters much
- spoonchucks, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3The trailing underscore was a conversion of a ? mark...
- cdawzrd, on 04/18/2008, -1/+4make that PHP, and I'll bite.
- Philodox, on 04/18/2008, -5/+8I saw an article on slashdot a couple of days ago regarding sun taking parts of the MySQL codebase closed-source. I guess it remains to be seen whether that article was baseless skepticism. I hope that MySQL wouldn't agree to be bought if it was just going to be made a shadow of its former self.
- asteroid, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3If it makes you feel any better, http://www.cio.com/article/336965 works just as well.
- ozsynergy, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2So very naive.
You are aware that Facebook is powered by MySQL / LAMP don't you?
You do know that Microsoft payed $240 million in a share of a LINUX APACHE MYSQL PHP based company.
Is 240million not serious enough for you? Grow up fanboi. - BrainInAJar, on 04/18/2008, -2/+4*shrug* your funeral.
I'll continue to evaluate any systems that make sense to and choose what meets my needs best... rather than relying on what other people use - fugazied, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl
FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL, Python
FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP
All good! - ravage86, on 04/18/2008, -2/+4I stand by the fact that MySQL has superior clustering capabilities.
- BrainInAJar, on 04/18/2008, -2/+4ebay, Twitter. Ideeli.... developers, banks, defence people.... tons of people use it ( more than linux I suspect )
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