Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-14 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 10:11 -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote: > On 02/13/2012 01:20 AM, Eddie Bachle wrote: > > I would like to say we would still switch, or still heavily consider it > > for the grains that could be made by using Ubuntu, however > > realistically, the lack of native MySQL in any OS

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-13 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 02:20 -0500, Eddie Bachle wrote: > In general, I am generally an simply an observer on most of these > mailing lists, however my concerns with a switch are far less > technical and far more practical. I work currently for a college in > Michigan which utilizes almost solely W

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-11 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 20:47 -0200, Fabio T. Leitao wrote: > I have already moved some of my servers to mariadb, with minor to none > downtime during the process, but I have also kept some of them stuck > with mysql just because of the "official" support (well, it is the > elected one in main reposi

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 01:50 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > I'm writing to the greater Debian and Ubuntu community to ask for your > thoughts on a proposal to drop MySQL in favor of MariaDB. Its clear to > me that Oracle is not going to do work in the open, and this will become > a huge support burden