[TriLUG] This is not good

[Shawn Hartsock]

So now we have the LADP stack? ... man, call it Mizzle at least.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Neil L. Little
<nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Well for one thing it happened last year and its called Drizzle.
>
> 73,
> Neil, WA4AZL
>
> Shawn Hartsock wrote:
>>
>> What would the rules of a fork like that be? Could they still call it
>> MySQL? In other words do we still get to call it the LAMP stack when
>> MySQL goes away? Do we fork MySQL and give it an 'M' name like
>> MackerelQL?
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Neil L. Little
>> <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I thought that I read that the open source MySQL forked when it was
>>> bought
>>> by Sun.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Neil, WA4AZL
>>>
>>>
>>> Christopher L Merrill wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> mgmonza wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That leaves PostgreSql as the only free SQL database, I believe. It's
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ignoring the plethora of free databases, don't ya think you're jumping
>>>> the gun a little?
>>>>
>>>> First, it's open-source...and thus not easy to kill. Worst case, no more
>>>> funding for development - which means the community will have to
>>>> continue
>>>> development.
>>>>
>>>> Second, Oracle didn't buy MySql, they bought Sun - MySql is along for
>>>> the
>>>> ride. Oracle wanted hardware, Solaris and Java. I wouldn't be surprised
>>>> if they put MySql up for sale.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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