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From Christopher Browne
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pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> To me, the big MySQL issue is that it isn't an open source
> development project, just a company that distributes code via open
> source.  They will never be able to keep up with us.

I found the quote from Scott McNealy most ironic:

http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,78443,00.html

"If you want to save...money, make the default database MySQL. It's
free, it's bundled [with Sun's Solaris software], you've got the whole
open-source community working on making it better. If Yahoo and Google
can run their entire operations on MySQL, then certainly there's a
huge chunk of your operations that could run on it as well."

There lies a good question...

How many "open source" developers are _actually_ working on MySQL?

If Scott McNealy is right, then who are those scads of people
committing code to the tree?   :-)
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