Oracle buying Zend????
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- seodevhead
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Wow... I am just finding out about this now. Could this be the death of MySQL as the future of open-source database???? I thought for sure MySQL would overcome Oracle one day. Can't MySQL produce it's own software for the things InnoDB and that other software company that Oracle just bought (some animal in the name like monkey or somehting) made?? Oracle also tried buying MySQL.
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You realize there are other storage engines built into MySQL right?
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/ ... gines.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/ ... gines.html
- seodevhead
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I only know of HEAP, MEMORY, and of course the default MyISAM... but I thought InnoDB was the only one that handled transactions, stored procedures, etc. I'm a noob, all I know right now is MyISAM, but I was hoping to learn the intricacies of InnoDB as I have started reading some stuff on transactions. Guess I'll thwart that. What should I turn too?
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I agree with Feyd. The only problems this acquisition will cause is for those who wish to use MySQL for there closed-source, proprietary products, and even then, you're already paying for an alternate license already. If they discontinue licensing, the folks at MySQL can fork it. However, that may stop them from having the rights to license it under a commercial license, depending on the copyright status of the work.