Thanks for actually identifying yourself, I've had crazy anon arguing my posts before.
I didn't say Oracle and MySQL compete in the same field always. I'll fully acknowledge there are places where they are not equal, and I've used both of them there (partially translucent databases). However Oracle has been promoting themselves for the web market, under the guise of (and I'm paraphrasing here from when an Oracle salesperson last approached me): "have a bigger database, able to scale further than MySQL, and avoid switching later".
Their assurances are interesting, but: - most of the items are just things that are already true. - why the 5 year time limit? - why didn't they formally file them with the EC? - the Advisory board items show they were not aware that said Boards ALREADY existed, but there is nothing about how much influence said boards will have.
I don't agree with some of the other items in Monty's review of the "assurances", as I think they will keep enterprise+community together and instead focus heavily into a closed-source engine (InnoDB+) that they sell, while trimming development on the open-source parts (just like they did with Innobase).
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Date: 2009-12-16 07:17 pm (UTC)I didn't say Oracle and MySQL compete in the same field always. I'll fully acknowledge there are places where they are not equal, and I've used both of them there (partially translucent databases). However Oracle has been promoting themselves for the web market, under the guise of (and I'm paraphrasing here from when an Oracle salesperson last approached me): "have a bigger database, able to scale further than MySQL, and avoid switching later".
Their assurances are interesting, but:
- most of the items are just things that are already true.
- why the 5 year time limit?
- why didn't they formally file them with the EC?
- the Advisory board items show they were not aware that said Boards ALREADY existed, but there is nothing about how much influence said boards will have.
I don't agree with some of the other items in Monty's review of the "assurances", as I think they will keep enterprise+community together and instead focus heavily into a closed-source engine (InnoDB+) that they sell, while trimming development on the open-source parts (just like they did with Innobase).