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 09:02
