Pátek leden 18, 2008

Arise a Elephine

Do you know it? Did you hear or read about it? Probably yes. I had severals calls, I got many emails and uncountable instant messaging messages. Do you still not know what I talk about? Yes, I talk about MySQL acquisition. I had to read Jonathan emails three time to really catch a point. It was something unbelievable and it happened in January not on first April. It had to be true. OK. It was shock for me, because I'm member of PostgreSQL team and I spent last two years to conviction people inside and outside Sun that PostgreSQL is better database then MySQL. What will I do now? What will happen with PostgreSQL support they were my first questions in my head.

I have been reading a lot of articles, blogs and comments about this deal for two last days. And some comments were really funny. I read that we are planing probably to put all three databases together (PostgreSQL, JavaDB and MySQL). Whauu ... It is fantastic idea. How will we call it? Elephine seems to be good name. And how this animal looks like? You can see it on the following picture (thank to Petr Zahradnik).

OK. Does anybody still think that it is good idea? It is nonsense. All these three databases have different architectures and cover different markets with some overlaps. Support all of them makes more sense then putting them together or stop support one of them.