Hi,
On 31 Oct 2014, at 6:19 pm, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
Sorry, I did mean under a virtualization environment ... that makes a big difference.
We support most virtualization platforms including VMware, Hyper-V and Oracle VM. We also support most operating systems. Certification has also broaden to include RDBMS on Windows running on Hyper-V (with Oracle Linux certification on Hyper-V in progress). We even extended support on VMware to cover RAC from 11.2.0.3 and higher. Though, VMware support doesn't include certification.
I would have preferred that Oracle give Sun a good leg up, particularly since there are so many implementations out there that are Sun OS / Oracle based and over so many years -- instead, Sun become vulnerable and Oracle gobbled them up, rather than otherwise help them out.
We didn't gobble them up: Sun had to be sold, regardless. Oracle was the primary application on the SPARC platform so we were giving them as much support as we possibly could. Would you have preferred IBM to buy Sun? They were the front-runner for the acquisition for much longer than Oracle.
Then why are the test scripts no longer open source? This is pushing users towards MariaDB and other alternatives.
I can't answer this: I'm not part of the MySQL team and have no visibility into their internal decisions.
I would also like to see ZFS have it's license terms changed so that it can be a real alternative to BTRFS for Linux, instead we need to go BSD to get the best benefits of ZFS.
ZFS is almost certainly never going to have its license changed: I'd rather focus on improving btrfs so that it negates the need for ZFS on Linux completely. Keep in mind that we started development on btrfs way before the Sun acquisition. Cheers, Avi