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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: korry <korry.douglas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sun Talks about MySQL
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:28:41 +0100
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On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:59 -0400, korry wrote:
> 
> > > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/CEO-Calls-MySQLs-the-Ferrari-of-Databases/ 
> > 
> > I can see that, the engines from both companies make similar speed
> > versus reliability trade-offs: http://www.f1technical.net/news/8507 
> When they fail, they fail fast

I think they have interpreted the flaws of MySQL as something they can
sell more services with - so, dangerous, difficult to use etc all mean
additional $$$. It's certainly what Oracle did for years.

-- 
  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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