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Re:Is MySQL Doomed to Extinction? by spudlyo on Sunday May 09, 2010 @11:07AM (#1332112)
It's going to take a lot more than an expensive, closed source, hardware integrated, clustered database that talks the MySQL protocol to even make even a tiny dent in MySQL's popularity. Outrageous headline used to draw people in to an annoying article that reads like marketing copy.
Re:Is MySQL Doomed to Extinction? by mcav on Sunday May 09, 2010 @12:28PM (#1332281)
It's going to take ... Postgresql.
Re:Is MySQL Doomed to Extinction? by mmt on Sunday May 09, 2010 @12:40PM (#1332305)
..an oft-overlooked option, sadly

That and cheaper hardware used more intelligently.

Even more sadly,I have found these topics, RDBMSes and hardware, to be areas of great ignorance and, perhaps therefore, fear among software folk.

More importantly, it will probably take a substantial effort to de-mystify these two.

Re:Is MySQL Doomed to Extinction? by spudlyo on Sunday May 09, 2010 @12:42PM (#1332310)
Built in replication is a big step towards that goal. Healthy competition between open source databases is good for everyone.