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Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by danielovichdk on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:13PM (#40661819)
Oracle is the best sales force in the software industry.

It's absolutely amazing how much money they are making with such little product.

Mysql is a great database.

Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by PeterZaitsev on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:18PM (#40662607)
I better clarify - Killing MySQL as Open Source database.

Oracle might totally be successful selling MySQL Heatwave in Oracle Cloud, though it has little value for Open Source MySQL Community

Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by LegitShady on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:26PM (#40661951)
100%. If only oracle db was as good as its sales team. same is true for basically all SAP products.
Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by ChrisArchitect on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:47PM (#40662215)
Some more from the author a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633856
Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by a1o on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:09PM (#40661772)
Apparently the answer is No, unless I missed something.
Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by lantry on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:23PM (#40661915)
Not exactly a no, more like "No, but they are letting it die"

> "unless Oracle turns its attention to the needs modern developers have from a relational database, it will be killing it, if not through action, then through inaction!"

Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by pianohacker on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:10PM (#40661787)
Good old Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by cchance on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @11:11PM (#40665550)
I mean the article basically clarifies, they're killing it through in-action, it's basically stagnant and postgresql is eating it for lunch by basically every metric.
Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by JSDevOps on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:32PM (#40662031)
No
Re:Is Oracle Killing MySQL? by kyriakos on Thursday June 13, 2024 @12:05AM (#40665822)
How's Mariadb these days?