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Comments on: Google gets jiggy with MySQL

When will the benefits be seen? 

Posted Thursday 25th October 2007 17:24 GMT

Happy

With the MySQL 5.1 release seemingly in development/alpha/beta for an ice age (looking at the change log the first 5.1 appeared 29 November 2005) I wonder when there will be a production-ready release of code that incorporates some of Google's changes? Also to be talking about features in version 7 seems like a decade away!

But that aside, bring on the Google improvements!

Does this mean we'll see MySQL in Google Docs soon? 

Posted Thursday 25th October 2007 22:13 GMT

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If Bill Gates had Steel Ones..... 

Posted Thursday 25th October 2007 23:05 GMT

Boffin

He'd sweep in and make MYSQL an offer it couldn't refuse to purchase the company.

Then he'd add some MS code corruption and release the next version.

Then he could release the updated code to Google and watch all their search results point to msn.come

Then everyone could sit back and watch the technology equivalent of World War III - starring Steve Ballmer as France, Bill Gates as Stalin, and Hillary Clinton as Mata Hari.

The google boys could be played by any number of Japanese kamikazes, and Steve Jobs could have a cameo as Wolfshits the Enigma inventor who despite his brilliance, his ego insists that his U-Boat can indeed be outfitted with a touch pad and screen doors, and mysteriously disappears.

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