On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov questpc@rambler.ru wrote:
What can be more valuable than a general knowledge?
I didn't mean some idealistic notion of what's most valuable to humanity. I meant money. There are plenty of MySQL databases whose continued efficient operation is worth many millions of dollars to their owners. Wikimedia's database is worth almost nothing commercially due to its licensing. Databases that are valuable (as in money) will have owners who are willing to spend money to get them working better, and money is what MySQL cares most about. It's a business.
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
An upgrade to MySQL 6 would make a big difference for language and collation support.
MySQL 6 is still in alpha. It is not close to suitable for production use. Upgrading to it is totally out of the question.