Nytro Posted August 23, 2012 Report Posted August 23, 2012 Oracle Abandoning MySQL Developers?To run you through the origin of MySQL, it is one of the most popular databases used by developers across the world. Sunday, August 19, 2012: Though there is no open announcement about it, but it’s getting almost clear that the company has all plans to close up the open source software, thereby abandoning the MySQL community. Stamping the move was the recent discovery, where the developers realised that the big fixes released for MySQL did not have any test cases to assure developers that the problem had actually been fixed. This is making the developers unsettled and confused about how Oracle defines open or closed software. And these developers are not shying away from openly talking about the problem in almost every platform. To run you through the origin of MySQL, it is one of the most popular databases used by developers across the world. It landed with Oracle, when it acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010.According to a post in MariaDB, MySQL has used a testing framework called mysql-test since 1999. Over the past years, tests have been built for new features and regression tests that guarantee that a bug fix is permanent. Developers such as those from Facebook and Twitter rely on the testing framework. At Twitter, MySQL serves as the “persistent storage technology behind most Twitter data: the interest graph, timelines, user data and the Tweets themselves.”Moreover, it is being reported that Oracle has removed the revision history for MySQL. This means that developers cannot know the set of changes made to the software, leaving them guessing what was changed when and by who. Kalpana Sharma, EFYTIMES News Network Sursa: http://news.efytimes.com/e1/89071/Oracle-Abandoning-MySQL-Developers Quote
