RobertB-DC's Journal: Ghost Article: Assasination attempt on MySQL?

Ghosts of Slashdot: 10/10/2005
[The first few words should have been a hint. Sure enough, the story broke on Friday, though you have to admit that Oracle Acquires Innobase doesn't have quite the ring of "Assasination attempt on MySQL?"]

Assasination attempt on MySQL?
Posted by Hemos in The Mysterious Future!
from the the-silent-struggle-of-databases dept.

Will Darcy writes "Interesting news on Friday: the Oracle acquisition - the eleventh this year - of Innobase. Innobase? You may very well have never heard of it. Unless you are a serious MySQL user. MySQL the most popular open source database product - a serious competitor to Oracle's core money maker: the RDBMS. Innobase is one of several database engines you can use with MySQL. But it is the most important one for organisations that are looking for a serious database, with high concurrency, ACID transactions, foreign keys with cascading UPDATE and DELETE in MySQL. That means: if you are looking for a database that supports Foreign Keys or real transactions , MySQL can only deliver when used with the InnoDB engine from Innobase. That means in my opinion that Oracle now holds the key to whether MySQL is or is not a serious 'enterprise level' database! see this blog by Lucas Jellema for more details."

What are the Ghosts of Slashdot?
As a Slashdot Subscriber, I get to see stories before they're posted to the general public. This means that I get to see the mistakes -- the articles that almost made it, but got sent to the cutting room floor at the last minute. They become the Ghosts of Slashdot, a URL that points to nothing.

Note that this is NOT the same as whining about article submissions that didn't get accepted! These stories were accepted, posted for subscribers, and then pulled from the site. Their brief existence gives us a glimpse into the Slashdot post-submission process, for those who are interested in what's going on behind the curtain.

Other Subscribers have joined the Ghost Hunt!
Here's a partial list:

morcheeba

more to come...