Re: I thin'k MySQL will be the 'Oracle Personal Edition'

2009-04-22 Thread Lin Chun
XE store up to 4GB of user data, use up to 1GB of memory, and use one CPU on the host machine. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Pundt wrote: > José I. Merino schrieb: > >> The main question is: >> >> Will Oracle permits a cheaper DB in his portfolio with almost the same >> reliability tha

Re: I thin'k MySQL will be the 'Oracle Personal Edition'

2009-04-22 Thread Arthur Fuller
The revenue that MySQL has accrued to date comes (obviously) from the support contracts. Oracle has no interest in derailing this revenue stream. It may well slow down the version cycle, which may be a good thing, but that aside, I cannot see Oracle killing the MySQL stream. There's no argument tha

Re: I thin'k MySQL will be the 'Oracle Personal Edition'

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Pundt
José I. Merino schrieb: The main question is: Will Oracle permits a cheaper DB in his portfolio with almost the same reliability than his main and expensive DB? It already has, it's called "Oracle Express Edition". Ciao, Thomas -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.

I thin'k MySQL will be the 'Oracle Personal Edition'

2009-04-22 Thread José I . Merino
The main question is: Will Oracle permits a cheaper DB in his portfolio with almost the same reliability than his main and expensive DB? Ok. MySQL is the main database in a wide 'open source' community. That people never will bought Oracle to build a phpBB forum or to install Joomla, but what hap