johnnyb@eskimo.com (Jonathan Bartlett) writes:
> As far as I'm aware, MAXDB is completely different from MySQL,
> although it's sold by the same company. It's basically SAP's DB,
> which is really just a fork off of Adabas D, which has been a
> mainframe database for a long time.
>
> So, it really has nothing to do with MySQL, just the MySQL company.
MySQL AB got about $19M of venture capital to take over development of
"SAPDB," which represents rather a lot of 'nothing.'
What will happen in the integration of the product lines is a Really
Big Question.
- If it succeeds, it shows how impoverished the "old" product was;
- If it fails, it will be a company-killing disaster for them that
will reflect badly across the whole 'open source' community.
The latter would injure the credibility of PostgreSQL in the wider
community, despite the fact you or I might imagine this to be
irrelevant.
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