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Just when the antics of Apple with its Antennagate, crewing the cross platform development community with Thoughts on Flash, and idea patenting make you believe that it could be the new villain of the tech world, along comes Steve’s friend Larry to remind us that there are some things that Oracle can always do better – starting with the Oracle lawsuit vs Google and its use of Java in Android. This is simply the first act among a three act dark comedy. Read the rest of this entry »

As president of Paradigma Software with its columnar database technology Valentina, I would like to think that the announced acquisition of Sun By Oracle is about the database market and a response to innovation in the field of databases. Indirectly, I think it is, but it isn’t about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. More so, it is about Oracle’s big iron position in the computer industry and what it learned from the failed shopping trip by IBM. Read the rest of this entry »

A new reason has come up to be swearing at MySQL rather than swearing by MySQL.

The MySQL Performance Blog reports that MySQL Community Edition has not been upgraded since November 2007, whereas it previously received twice-a-year updates. This product is the free and open source version of MySQL (The M in LAMP) that was MySQL’s source of success.

What is bothersome is that the MySQL Community Server page lists version 6.0, however if you follow that link, you are directed back to the 5.0.x version and also directed to their per server/per year license, which has an enticing per server/per year license starting at $595 but quickly stepping up to $4999 per year.

I’ve had a few folks point out to me that this is a better price than Valentina, until they figure out that Valentina initial pricing is for two years of updates, not one, bringing the price down to about the same or below MySQL pricing. That is intentional.