Thread: MySQL and RHDB news; 8.0 troll

Some interesting MySQL news here:

http://news.com.com/2100-1012-996434.html

... and for those who weren't aware, this from Patrick Macdonald on the RHDB mailing list:

> The Red Hat Database product was end-of-life'd last year and is no
> longer supported by Red Hat.  However, questions and concerns are
> still addressed by the development team at rhdb@sources.redhat.com.
>
> The former RHDB development team is currently working on the
> PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition project.

This brings me back to the oft-discussed question of marketing.  If PITR, Win32, and some basic M-S replication are
stillon tap for 7.4, I think that more than qualifies as a major version bump.  And I humbly submit that the
sometimes-complacenttech press who continues to write about MySQL as if it were a real RDBMS might be more interested
inversion 8.0 as a Major Step Forward For PostgreSQL - along the lines of the coverage 7.0 got. 

Cheers,
Ned

Ned Lilly wrote:
> Some interesting MySQL news here:
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1012-996434.html

What I find most interesting is this bit of information:
"What's more, the company said, downloads of Microsoft versions of MySQL
outnumber Linux versions by at least four to one."

I believe a working win32 port will increase pg's popularity much. Not
because that's our intended main market, but because of all the windows guys
who will just try the database on their laptop or desktop first -- and then
be amazed by postgres' capabilities.

Regards,
Michael Paesold