MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs?

Disoculated writes "Is MySQL a threat to bigwigs? is the question asked in CNN's technology section. The article notes that MySQL is running perhaps 20% of the web databases but its revenue is merely 0.02%... yet the company is still making money and putting out an excellent product. Is this a sign that the database market is in for a drastic change? Of course, there's no mention of PostgreSQL or mSQL, but I guess that's typical."

Trouble for the bigwigs?

[Tuxinatorium]

Actually, I can't think of any reason why british guards would be afraid of MySQL.

Re:Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

[rycamor]

It's going to take more than a wrapper to get stored procedures into MySQL (lol).

But that is an excellent idea for PostgreSQL.

Re:Version 4 Will Tell

[HydroCarbon10]

Not to mention that the current version seems to have a mysterious problem with randomly melting databases.

I'm bookmarking this story so next time my database melts I can come here for a quick laugh before going off to repair it.

Re:Version 4 Will Tell

[SamBeckett]

I put on my databases this morning. The dog kept on biting my databases. After I got home this evening, I took off my databases and they were stinky. Luckily, I had some spare databases around to wash them with.

Re:Version 4 Will Tell

[Chester K]

It's too bad most Linux developers aren't interested in doing something really forward-thinking. If there was a DB integrated into the OS, and apps encouraged to use it, with avenues of data management made easily available to the user, computing could be actually pushed ahead by Linux. But not today, and probably nor ever.

An application integrated into the OS? You mean like Internet Explorer?

Funny?

[hackrobat]

Ah, what a pity! Not a single comment rated Funny?! I didn't think the topic of databases was that boring. ;-)

Re:"I think"

[lewp]

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