Re: IBM to start selling MySQL products

Steve,

I use it for several of my web applications. Some are PHP, some are Java Servlets. All run on my System i, as does MySQL. The primary reason for that is that the PHP apps require the MySQL DB (no direct support at the time for DB2) and, since I got comfortable using the MySQL, I stuck with it. I also have it on my development machine (laptop) so I can work while traveling. I also have DB2, MS SQL, and Derby on my laptop but I usually opt for MySQL.

The interest in MySQL by IBM might be because there are tons of PHP applications that use MySQL and perhaps they want to leverage those two on the platform which is where I think you were going as well. Expanding the SMB market with the 515 might make PHP/MySQL a logical choice.

Pete Helgren


Steve Richter wrote:

is MySQL as big as it was just a few years ago? MSFT has basically
made SqlServer a no charge item for small systems. Oracle is doing
well and I guess so is DB2. my sense is MqSQL is "limited" to being
the database used by the millions of small web sites that are running
PHP. Is that accurate?

-Steve

On 4/25/07, Steve Dodkins <Steve.Dodkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6179021.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=z
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IBM plans to start selling products from smaller rival MySQL, a
developer of an open-source database that is used to help run Web sites,
including Yahoo, Google and YouTube.