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Oracle Out – MySQL In?

Interesting comment spotted on Jonathan Schwartz’ blog:

[…] I work for a major Fortune company, and we’re in the process of putting Oracle on a “sunset” list of restricted vendors. No new applications are allowed on Oracle, the only approved vendors are Sun/MySQL and Microsoft/SQL Server. So I don’t know how Sun did that, but if their objective was to provide competition for Oracle, it appears to have worked with my management…

I know that MySQL and Oracle happily co-exist in many companies, I often train highly skilled Oracle developers and DBAs about MySQL specifics.

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  1. For as many times as I see this Such-And-Such is getting replaced by an Open Source product . . . I NEVER see the “NEWS” that and Open Source product is getting replaced by a COTS product.

    The door swings both ways. I just got a request on how to remove PostgreSQL and import the data to Oracle.

  2. You do, actually. Oracle and Microsoft tend to make big news of it 😉

    It’s fine to move from one platform to another, that’s common.
    What was the situation in your case… a long-running app, or a first implementation that didn’t perform as expected, or company politics? It’s always interesting to know the reasons.

    Anyway, the original comment didn’t talk about migrating, it talked about changing the company’s fundamental acquisition policy. I do think that is rather significant, those companies aren’t that progressive.

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