Two things… 1. This is not how Open Source works. OSS projects don’t hide binaries from the community – … is OSS. At best it’s source under glass. (unless this policy radically changes while at Sun). 2. The community is less… should host a public vote of no confidence in MySQL/Sun‘s management of MySQL releases. I don’t want to…
Post: MySQL and IBM
April 6, 2009 By 17 Comments
… is not about Sun and IBM 
This is about MySQL. If you download latest 5.1.33 source code you may find… Corporation 2007,2008 All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided… Announce Open Source Database Support for the IBM System i Platform”, it just took a bit a while to put it into source…
Post: Percona turns 5 years old
August 1, 2011 By 11 Comments
… hot-backup tool for InnoDB, as well as many other open-source software engineering projects. We’re happy that we’ve achieved…, both closed and open source. Finally, much gratitude is due to Oracle, and also to MySQL’s previous stewards: Sun Microsystems, MySQL AB…
Comment: Reading MySQL Enterprise future...
December 10, 2008 By 13 Comments
Todd, James We are building our business on open source components, we widely use Linux, Apache, PHP, Sphinx, MySQL and …. We are happy that PHP developers have php_db* functions open for everyone. And Sphinx developer Andrew Aksenoff made it available… some sense of FullText search nowadays. And – yes, thanks to Sun we still can download source code from dev.mysql.com.
Comment: Alternatives of PHP ?
September 10, 2006 By 28 Comments
… supported (I find this rare). I’ve started my own open source project to take my framework and publish for others. I….com.au You can get more blurb at http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/. Handling XML for example is a… out the XML functions at the API docs http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/tlddocs/index.html
Post: Call for opinions: Do we need MySQL 5.0 with MySQL 5.4 performance
April 29, 2009 By 12 Comments
… happen ? Looking at initial benchmarks I’m very impressed with Sun Performance Team work though it looks like there was not… think development was done in true open source spirit – trading making a big marketing splash for true openness. Where does this leave XtraDB…
Comment: Should we proclaim MySQL Community Edition Dead ?
July 2, 2008 By 34 Comments
… allows redistribution. Though I would think it would apply to source only. Honestly I think this is great MySQL is not… states in the first comment. Thing we should not forget – Sun is commercial company and MySQL group has to make money… my opinion MySQL stretches its accelerated growth practices beyond “ethical open source“.
Comment: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions
October 18, 2009 By 36 Comments
… organization is using GIS and they want to use a Open Source database is MySQL really the right decision? PostGIS is a… of MySQL Certified Cluster DBA* is ~100 people, many from Sun. This should scare you. A few months back I saw…
Post: Percona welcomes Yves Trudeau and Fernando Ipar
October 8, 2009 By 6 Comments
… a tenure of several years as a senior consultant at Sun/MySQL. Together with Matt Yonkovit, he plans to work on… involved in computer programming since he was 11, and in Open Source since 2001. He loves shade-grown coffee, music, and natural…
Comment: How many people will leave MySQL now ?
June 3, 2009 By 7 Comments
[...] 2009 Ever since Sun Microsystems agreed to acquire MySQL back in 2008, there has been a fair bit of uncertainty and chaos surrounding the worlds most popular Open Source database. With many big names in the [...]
