Re: Not that you guys pay any attention...

MySQL does ok on small data, but chokes and dies on anything sizable. In many dot-coms, speaking from experience, it's the kids running MySQL, and they expect it to scale up, which it won't, at least for right now. Until the Falcon engine really comes of age, and partitioning matures, MySQL is still not going to be a threat for the next few years. Many of the bigger shops hell bent on MySQL are using overlay products to offset the broken-ness of MySQL, such as Continuent, and its open sores cousin Sequoia. MySQL is really over in the camp of auto-commit databases, so it's not going to be a choice for real enterprise databases, not for a long time. Like SQL-Server and other engines that are basically auto-commit, you cannot control logging the way you can with Informix, or DB2, or <gasp> Oracle. Until that kind of functionality is in MySQL it isn't going to be a threat. MySQL has the mindshare of the kidz running the dot-coms, but they learn after their data starts to grow that MySQL is good for small stuff, but not for real enterprise. Maybe Sun wants to get in the game, kinda like they tried with storage, chasing after EMC. They have a lot of cash, so maybe they can afford to waste time with MySQL. dcruncher4@aim.com wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby says... >> >> But today Sun announced the purchase of MySQL.=20 >> >> Doesn't anyone find that a bit interesting? >> >> On a similar note, why doesn't IBM's powers to be, wake up and smell the co= >> ffee and acquire SAP? > > This means trouble for many already struggling RDBMs > and that includes our beloved Informix too. >