Comments on: MySQL 5.0.48 proof that the MySQL release cycle is completely broken.

By: Somebody New

Somebody New — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:25:45 +0000

Stupid Oracle lovers! That’s gonna change with Falcon engine! European companies should question their IT *Experts* who sleep too much and don’t see the evolution, it’s easier for them to stay with what they know, and they are affraid to think about learning something new; all paradigms eventually fall!
*REAL critical environments*???
Come on!

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:32:50 +0000

texas guy and Somebody:
1. bankruptcy? Sun, that’s all there’s to say.
2. How about Google? Facebook? Digg?

MySQL may not have as many people as Oracle does and it is much younger (Oracle was started in late 70s while MySQL in late 90s), but it definitely has a lot to offer.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:58:46 +0000

“Most of the Mysql users and companies using Mysql that i know don’t want rock stable software”.

I totally agreed. I WOULD LOVE to see ONE big multinational company that uses MySQL on a **REAL** critical environment like, for example, controlling hundred of thousands of credit card transactions.

MySQL is still a toy. A nice one, but only a toy for installing on blogs and forums. Really, on my years working as a IT consultant with some of the biggest european insurance, IT and economic companies i’ve really only seen one database, Oracle. And that’s a fact, not only my ‘perception’.

C’mon, MySQL doesn’t even supported views, referential integrity, triggers and stored procedures a couple of years ago …

By: texas guy

texas guy — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:49:41 +0000

Amen brotha!

I’m looking forward to read about MySQL AB’s filing for bankruptcy!

By: Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:18:34 +0000

What did you expect? Mysql Company release what customers want:
Most of the Mysql users and companies using Mysql that i know don’t want rock stable software. In contrary, they want new features, they want the features yesterday and they even pay for this features.
So you can’t expect to have customers wait for some community releases …

By: Arjen Lentz

Arjen Lentz — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:09:32 +0000

I don’t believe it’s ignorance any more, because some people whom I’m very sure fully understand the community and development ecosystem are fully on board with it.
I currently think the problem is simply fear. Fear that another approach will not bring the revenue and growth that MySQL Inc requires.
And that’s sad, because in business terms, it may actually prove “good enough”; in technical, community and objective quality terms it sucks, as you’ve just pointed out. But since so much software out there sucks to the Nth degree… the bar, even for “enterprise level” software, is low. And thus the well trodden path is followed, rather than blazing a new trail. It’s very traditional, and very safe.
It’s just not good from our perspective.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:51:49 +0000

Agreed!

They need to take corrective measures now. Hopefully they see the light.