On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Stewart Smith wrote:

[Oracle and MySQL]
> They've switched to an "open core" model. Some plugins are closed
> source. e.g. PAM authentication (both MariaDB and Percona Server have
> open source equivalents, even with more features than the closed one).

iX 8/2012, a German magazine, has a longer article about the "MySQL
universe" describing forks and tools around it. It focuses on Percona in
particular.

The problem, as I see it with MySQL forks, is that there are too many of them. Monty has his own fork now, there are a few NoSQL forks around, and a few other ones still that are trying to differentiate themselves based on performance of added functionality. The community hasn't coalesced around a single development platform and is very fragmented and so none of these have really taken off. The fact they all go to these extreme measures to remain compatible with MySQL shows their struggles in getting traction.

This is very much in contrast with, say the move from OOo to LibreOffice or from XFree86 to FreeDesktop.org's X servers.

Cheers
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Aryan