Comments on: MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle

Martin Mickos calls one of Oracle's products "crippleware" and then names the company as a partner of the year.

disagree
by chyl April 26, 2006 12:36 PM PDT: i'll have to disagree w/ mr mr executive on this one. free products can do alot for these companies, microsoft and oracle both. by giving sql server express 2k5 and oracle 10g express away for free, developers (and consequently their clients) are steered toward development products and platforms and possible an OS as well, not necessarily the database. a small to medium sized business can run quite a bit of software on these two database platforms NEVER needing to upgrade to the full blown version.

by offering a free database (particularly in microsoft's case) they stand to keep customers and developers on their platform, vs switching to something like linux and mysql.

no two ways about it, visual studio and the .NET CLR integrates MUCH nicer with sql server and oracle than with mysql.

i'll concede though, on a case by case basis, one should evaluate the limitations of these free products and determine if they don't have the headroom for planned expansion in the future at the cost associated w/ the non-for-free versions.

crippleware though...hardly...; Like this Reply to this comment

disagree
by chyl April 26, 2006 12:36 PM PDT: i'll have to disagree w/ mr mr executive on this one. free products can do alot for these companies, microsoft and oracle both. by giving sql server express 2k5 and oracle 10g express away for free, developers (and consequently their clients) are steered toward development products and platforms and possible an OS as well, not necessarily the database. a small to medium sized business can run quite a bit of software on these two database platforms NEVER needing to upgrade to the full blown version.

by offering a free database (particularly in microsoft's case) they stand to keep customers and developers on their platform, vs switching to something like linux and mysql.

no two ways about it, visual studio and the .NET CLR integrates MUCH nicer with sql server and oracle than with mysql.

i'll concede though, on a case by case basis, one should evaluate the limitations of these free products and determine if they don't have the headroom for planned expansion in the future at the cost associated w/ the non-for-free versions.

crippleware though...hardly...; Like this Reply to this comment