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Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Sigh. > > Ok, lets put it this way... > > With the Open Source movement around MySQL starting to fragment, its > future is called in to question. Sun Microsystems now owns the code > stream and can do with it what it wants. While there is a code stream > that is open sourced, it doesn't mean that Sun will continue to support > it. Or that they will put in all the latest and greatest features that > they will put in to a paid for release. I'm not suggesting that Sun do > this or that they will do this. All I am saying is that they have the > right to do this. > > There are those in the OS community that don't want to work with Sun. > After all, Sun has a pay for the license mentality. They will attempt to > fork the distribution. In doing so, they splinter the community. Under > tough economic times, you can bet that those in the OS community will > put a priority on their day jobs and forgo the OS playtime. > > In addition, not everything in a database server is straightforward and > easy to design. So as IDS/DB2 , Oracle and other 'pay to play' databases > advance their technology, the pure 'Open Source' databases will fall > behind. They will fill a niche, but they will not maintain the support > and popularity over the long run. > > IDS? > IDS still has a strong core following. Even though Janet could not > overtly kill IDS, she did do some damage which has yet to be repaired. > In spite of this, IDS is still growing as a product and has seen some > growth in their user base. (No, we don't know the numbers because IBM > doesn't break out the numbers.) > > So IBM will keep supporting IDS because it still makes them money. > > If OS MySQL splitners, you can bet it will wain in popularity. For OS > software to succeed there has to be a certain size to their community > members supporting the product. Fall below that minimum number, and > you're toast. > > Does that make sense? > > Meaning that IDS has a roadmap and a dedicated support team. MySQL as an > OpenSource product does not have said base. Hurrah. It speaks English after all! :o) -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com