Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Aaron Clark <ophidian@×××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why still postgres 8.2?
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:14:41
Message-Id: 4A12DAEE.3090709@ophidian.homeip.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Why still postgres 8.2? by James
1 James wrote:
2 >
3 > However, now that Oracle owns mysql, maybe, just maybe, postgresql
4 > will get a little bit more attention, across the net....
5 > and here at Gentoo....
6 >
7 > My prediction is that Oracle is going to do every thing it can
8 > to cause Mysql to lanquish......
9
10 That probably doesn't matter considering all of the existing
11 flavors/forks of MySQL that have existed since Sun bought MySQL. IIRC,
12 Monty has already started a new consortium for maintaining compatibility
13 between all of these flavors.
14
15 Aaron