| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | korry <korry(dot)douglas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Sun Talks about MySQL |
| Date: | 2008-04-24 13:28:41 |
| Message-ID: | 1209043721.4259.1526.camel@ebony.site |
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On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:59 -0400, korry wrote:
>
> > > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/CEO-Calls-MySQLs-the-Ferrari-of-Databases/
> >
> > I can see that, the engines from both companies make similar speed
> > versus reliability trade-offs: http://www.f1technical.net/news/8507
> When they fail, they fail fast
I think they have interpreted the flaws of MySQL as something they can
sell more services with - so, dangerous, difficult to use etc all mean
additional $$$. It's certainly what Oracle did for years.
--
Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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