Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Gartner on the Sun / MySQL deal

Heh, who knew we'd see the day that Gartner would write this:
Recommendations for all enterprises
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MySQL is capable of supporting clusters, delivering atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (ACID) functionality and handling some mission-critical applications. Evaluate MySQL as an alternative to IBM DB2, Oracle and other DBMSs.
Well, fact of the matter is, they did write it in a recent report on the MySQL / Sun deal. You can download the Gartner analysis right here free of charge.

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