MySQL price hikes

Re:MySQL price hikes by esponapule on Friday October 08, 2010 @11:30AM (#1771964)

I think MySQL needs to follow the path of Libre Office (the document foundation) and fork. The project should be run by the community and not controlled by Oracle. Oracle, like Sun did not create the database (Sun bought it in 2008) and are trying to profit off the community MySQL has created. This is open source and should remain open source.

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Re:MySQL price hikes by stuartloxton on Friday October 08, 2010 @11:57AM (#1772069)

There is a fork of MySQL called Drizzle which is run by the chief architect of MySQL before sun bought them. From what I remember reading a while ago it's being specifically targeted at being used for Web Backends.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(database_server))

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Re:MySQL price hikes by dkoch on Friday October 08, 2010 @11:43AM (#1772016)

MariaDB is one viable fork: http://mariadb.org/

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Re:MySQL price hikes by p0ppe on Friday October 08, 2010 @01:34PM (#1772489)

The fact that it's run by Monty Widenius is definitely a plus.

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