This is what I have seen in the SAP DB mailing list this weekend ...
Maybe all of us should have some fun.
SAP has finally gone completely insane.
I can already see Monty on every SAP advertisment *nocomment*.
This is the worst thing I have ever seen.
Hans
SAP bets on MySQL
The software giant SAP entered a partnership with the Swedish database
developer MvSQL AB. Objective of this collaboration is the unified(?)
development of a new Open-Source database system for Enterprise
applications. This move fits well into the concept of SAP to reduce the
commercial importance of database server.
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<snip> some general words about MySQL & SAPDB </snip>
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After a multi-year collaboration and based on both products (MySQL & SAPDB),
a new server shall be developed. [Grammatically, it isn't 100% clear if this
"multi-year collaboration" refers to the past of to something that has yet
to come]. "The primary responsibility of the development lies at MySQL",
declares SAP speaker Karl-Heinz Hess in a newsletter. Support for the
database will be divided between MySQL & SAPDB. As a side-effect SAP will
gain open access to the giant community of MySQL specialists and developers.
Until the new system is finished, the current SAPDB will be continued in
Walldorf, but under the name MySQL. The new branding shall expressively be
the only change that current SAPDB user have to get accustomed with.</end>
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