Re: [tlug] Red Hat dropping MySQL

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "patrick" == patrick niessen <patrick.niessen@example.com> writes:

    patrick> Great admin and development tools (but they require a
    patrick> windows platform),

    >> There's an oxymoron for you!

    patrick> How is that? The great admin and development tools with
    patrick> bells and whistles run on windows,

I have yet to see a usable development tool on Windows; Visual Studio
certainly doesn't qualify.  There are whizbang tools which permit you
to configure a nice-looking GUI, but this is only about 1% of
"development".  Windows simply makes it difficult to do a good job
unless you buy into one of the expensive 3rd party CASE environment as
far as I can tell.

Great admin is probably possible but my experience with Windows admin
tools is that they are best avoided, preferably via fdisk.
 
    patrick> But when some serious money is involved, perhaps it is
    patrick> prudent to choose a proven enterprise level database?

No, it's prudent to make a careful choice.  Every product has
weaknesses, and "proven enterprise level" is not a guarantee.  When it
gets spun off to a third party by the original developer, the next
thing to do is watch where MySQL gets its MaxDB developers from.  If
they come from SAP, great.  If not, you have to wonder whether SAP is
actually going to trust MySQL with the development, or whether they've
decided they don't necessarily need anything more than what they've
already got, so set up a sucker they can point fingers at.

    patrick> even saying that the OSS developers are stupid to use
    patrick> MySQL because if everyone would only concentrate on
    patrick> PostgreSQL instead,

This is simply filling in the blank on the standard "monopoly software
is better software."  You can hear that at Microsoft, and you can hear
that at the FSF.  There's no shortage of fear of forking in open source.
Ignore it.

    patrick> then it could easily beat Oracle and IBM.  MySQL may not
    patrick> be perfect, but as long as you know the limitations you
    patrick> can get the job done nicely.

MySQL _lied_ about its capabilities way back when.  I disagree with
the way the Slashdot crowd fail to update their knowledge of such
things, but that was foolish.


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