Slashdot is covering a story about Google releasing a MySQL patch. While this is news, I consider it huge news - REALLY big news. If you want an argument over the best DB or DB Tools, check out the Slashdot Article - nuthin but a big argument.
What makes this news is the fact that this will help the developer community. I work for an organization that has a pretty strict no OSS policy. This wasn’t the case when I was brought on board, but upper management found out and shot 2 of my projects out of the water, right into the parking lot then buried them with a dump truck of pig shtuff.
With Google releasing this update, it will allow MySQL to gain more ground with companies that think that MySQL can’t handle the load. While I know that this is far from the truth (Yahoo & Google use MySQL), some corps turn an ignorant, blind eye, to the OSS community. While OSS software can be buggy and clunky, there are certain applications, like MySQL, that can be used in a very serious manner.
I can seriously say that I expect more companies to take a look at MySQL over the next few weeks with this news.
