On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Bjoern Boschman <bjo...@boschman.de> wrote: > More features even though they only apply to niche user are in general > nothing bad.
Many DBAs tend to be very conservative and like a less is more approach, but personally I agree with you. I wish there was fork with everything: all the features from MariaDB *and* MySQL 5.5. And Percona, they still have some unique stuff beyond those two, like Galera. > But I don't really get the point of MariaDB grants 5 year GA support > vs. Percona grants only 2 years. I'd guess that for > 90% of all > available packages within the Debian project no assured support exists > at all? Clearly I was unclear in my previous email. The 2 year support is not true for any of the alternatives. MySQL gives 5 years (and more for customers that pay), Percona trails MySQL so they also end up doing 5 years (and more for paying customers). MariaDB also does 5, apparently. So the original statement of 2 years was just not correct. Why this is important is a good question, however it seems the origin of this discussion comes from the fact that Ubuntu indeed wants to support their product, coupled with a feeling that the relationship with Oracle MySQL makes that goal hard to achieve. henrik -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
