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Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 01/18/08 13:38
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:14:44 +0000, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
wrote:
>Toby A Inkster wrote:
>> howa wrote:
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>>> any side effect for PHP?
>>
>> Quoting myself from http://message-id.net/jvm365-b8c.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk
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>> | A database has been the string missing from Sun's bow for a long time.
>> | Sure, they had Adabas D, but no-one took that seriously.
>> |
>> | It'll be interesting to see what happens with MySQL now. Sun have been a
>> | company relatively friendly to open source, so I doubt that we'll see
>> | major forking by developers opposed to the new ownership. Development will
>> | probably continue much like it always has, but expect to see more focus on
>> | support for OpenSolaris; improved JDBC bindings; and possibly further down
>> | the line, support for functions and stored procedures written in Java.
>>
>I agree. Sun sell hardware and solutions, not software.
>Unlike Microsoft.
>
>Software, to them, is a means to that end.
>
>I would *expect* that as far as the user/API interface goes, nothing
>will change.
>
>I would EXPECT that the database engine itself, *might* get a bit of
>performance tuning against SUN's hardware, which may or may not emerge
>into the public domain.
We run mysql ONLY on SUN hardware. It's blazing fast with no tuning
at all. :)
>It might or might not go clusterish,
That, it may.
>and not use ISAM at all, later on.
>But I think not.
I doubt that'll change as well.
>
>Because the top end is well covered by Oracle, so again I would EXPECT
>that MySQL will become a basic 'ships with the OS' type product, on
>which a lot of OS admin functions might be based, as well as it being a
>useful thing to have on board for less power hungry db apps.
>
>Thinking back to my days of 200 employees and Informix on SCO Unix, and
>telnet screens..I would have wet my pants for a SUN SPARC. with Mysql
>and the apps ported to apache/php/mySQL
Informix was good until IBM trashed it. SCO was ok until SCO Trashed
itself.
>
>In fact, essentially that is what I am doing now..writing the db app
>that despite spending 6 figure sums, I couldn't get then..it will
>probably cost 6 figures in terms of my time, but then I am retired, and
>its a hobby now.
:)
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gburnore at DataBasix dot Com
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