On Thursday, 19 January 2012, Richard Vowles <<a href="mailto:richard@developers-inc.co.nz">richard@developers-inc.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 16 January 2012 22:01, John Bird <<a href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> Now that Oracle owns MySQL I heard some muttering that the best real open source DB out there is now Firebird – not sure how well Oracle is treating MySQL but going by how they are treating Dalbek (The version of Java Google uses to develop for Android) I would be worried (ie Oracle is trying to sue the pants off Google to get licence fees for Android. Would be like Embarcadero suing the Free Pascal organisation (same language, different compiler)<br>
><br>> I think the Postgres crowd would disagree with you there :-) Remember MySQL being GPL means you can't ship it with your app - unless you open source your app or pay for MySQL. Both Firebird and Postgres are the only two "main" fully open source databases. <br>
><br>> --<br>> ---<br>> Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor<br>> Developers Inc Ltd<br><br>There is of course SQLLite but that is not a client server database by any stretch. A very useful DB for particular uses and quite widely used, but not a "real" DB by most terms.<br>
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