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27th December 2008 Archive

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  • Fast and 'free' beats steady and paid on MySQL

    Sun-sized inertia

    MySQL, the lovable little database engine that could - for reasonable values of could - is starting to feel the pain of being an open source project distributed by a large company. With a slower release cycle, community contributions are having a hard time making it into the mainline codebase, and an illicit market for patches …

    Developer 27 Dec 2008, 09:02