Re: [tlug] Red Hat dropping MySQL

[David E <dave@???>]

2004/03/18 (木) 12:16 に Jonathan Byrne さんは書きました:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 04:53 pm, Blomberg David wrote:
> 
> > later this week.  If so maybe you cvould ask them why they would be so
> > (being polite) "backwards" as to drop MySQL even after they fixed their
> > License to allow PHP libs without problems
> 
> The article says it's not because of the licensing issue, and I think we can 
> spell the reason why the are doing it "O-R-A-C-L-E."  Oracle is obviously 
> feeling some pressure from FLOSS databases as they get better and better. 
> MySQL and Postgresql are good and fast, and a lot of people who chose Oracle 
> years ago could now choose something else.    Some may even choose the 
> one-time cost and pain of migration off of Oracle and onto MySQL or 
> Postgresql to get the long-term cost savings.
> 
> No mention was made of Postgreql, does RHEL not include it?

I think they've made their own version of PostgreSQL called RedHat DB or
something like that. 


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-dave