<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Linux for you magazine published an article about the merger of Oracle and Sun, which included a candid discussion by Monty Widenius (the creator of MySQL) about what might happen to MySQL.<br><br>Of the scenarios that he considered (including a few bleak ones) Monty thinks that since there are already branches off the main release, these will continue to keep MySQL viable.<br><br>regards,<br>krishnan<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 22/7/09, paul POULAIN <i><paul.poulain@biblibre.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@biblibre.com><br>Subject: Re: [Koha] What if mysql stops being around?<br>To: "Indranil Das Gupta" <indradg@gmail.com><br>Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>Date: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009, 3:46 PM<br><br><div
class="plainMail">Indranil Das Gupta a écrit :<br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> These last couple of hours, i've been trying to access different<br>> *.mysql.com sites (for my non-Koha work). None of them responding to a<br>> http request. I'm not being a fear-monger or crystal gazer here, but<br>> I'm dependent on MySQL for several apps that i commercially support,<br>> which includes Koha.<br>><br>> I wonder just how ready or MySQL dependent are we (Koha users) as a<br>> community, just in case, Oracle decides to stop further work on MySQL?<br>> I'm aware of efforts like Drizzle. But how are we positioned w.r.t<br>> MySQL deps and what could hypothetically could be a possible life<br>> after MySQL (if it ever comes to that)<br>> <br>yes, of course, there is a possible life after mySQL, and it's called <br>PostgreSQL. Someone worked on porting koha here some months ago, with <br>some success. Although
it's not heavily tested, if we had to switch <br>here, that should not be a deadly thing.<br>But i don't think that it will be necessary. And I'm sure mysql.com will <br>be up again tomorrow morning and we will learn that the DNS or Apache or <br>whatever-you-want had a major problem today<br><br>-- <br>Paul POULAIN<br><a href="http://www.biblibre.com" target="_blank">http://www.biblibre.com</a><br>Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc<br>Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Koha mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" href="/mc/compose?to=Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</a><br><a href="http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha" target="_blank">http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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