Glyn Astill wrote:
>
> --- Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
>
> > If you look at the link I passed along before, you'll see the
> > difference
> > with MySQL is that they've been abusing their customers with minor
> > point
> > releases that try to add new features. Instead some of these
> > introduce
> > functional regressions, which often hang around for a whole long
> > longer
> > than two days after being noticed (this isn't even considering the
> > delays
> > before those fixes make their way back into the open source
> > product, some
> > only even go to paying customers).
>
> This is something I noticed too when looking at MySQL and postgres.
> The frequency of bug fixes and features, some coming over pretty
> quickly from the community release of MySQL scared me.
MySQL has incentives to _not_ make their community release
production-quality.
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