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On Mar 2, 2012 3:50 AM, "Tanstaafl" <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about |
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the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references |
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Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited |
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when it bought Sun): |
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> https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg00514.html |
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> In it is discussed - among many other things including lots of good |
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reason *why* - the possibility of replacing MySQL with MariaDB in |
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anticipation of Oracle's current poor stewardship of MySQL... |
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> My question is - shouldn't gentoo be considering this move as well? |
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> I've been seriously considering this for my own servers for some time, |
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and after reading this, I think it is time to stop thinking about it and |
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just do it, but I'm a bit nervous - ianap, and don't want to shoot myself |
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in the foot in the process. |
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> Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience? |
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Back in the ubuntu-server mailing list, this has been the topic of a lively |
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discussion last week. |
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The consensus seemed to be that MariaDB and Percona would be drop-in |
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replacements for MySQL. |
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Myself, I'm a PostgreSQL guy so I have no opinion ;-) |
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Rgds, |
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