Archive for April 17th, 2008

End of MySQL?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

That Sun bought MySQL is old news but that Sun will split it into two products “MySQL community” and “MySQL Enterprise” is less known. Now it turns out that many features in MySQL Enterprise will not be in the community version. The extensions will not even be open source. Sun revealed this at the MySQL Partner meeting as part of the MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA.

Enterprise will have online backup features that will not appear in the community edition. So the ‘few’ paying customers of the Enterprise edition will be running code that is virtually untested at large. I think this may very well be the end of MySQL. Time for the MySQL-fanboys to switch to PostgresQL. Goodbye MySQL. Or would some renegade group fork it and continue without Sun? Let’s wait and see…

Update: The strong reactions made Sun backoff already. More features will be in the community edition. However the license that will be used is still not decided. If Sun doesn’t open it up MySQL will die where it stands. RIP.

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Linux 2.6.25 hits the street

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

After eight release candidates the new Linux kernel is here: 2.6.25. Of course there are many fixes and support for new devices and even support for a new architecture (MEI MN103E010). Control groups were introduced in 2.6.24. You can assign tasks to so-called cgroups and control the amount of memory and CPU to the group of processes. There are many more enhancements. I had to download this puppy and try it out. Thanks to all the kernel hackers for this great release.

Linux 2.6.25

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Hans Reiser trial: closing arguments

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The Hans Reiser trial is coming to an end. Hans Reiser, owner of namesys and developer of the reiser filesystems, stands trial for murdering his wife. The prosecutor, Paul Hora, held his closing argument trying to convince the jury to convict Hans Reiser for murder. Hora addressed the jurors with the statement “You know he killed her. You know he killed her”. The circumstantial evidence against Hans Reiser is overwhelming.

The defendant’s attorney, William DuBois, is expected to begin his closing arguments after the lunch break. You can follow the proceedings of the trail here.

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