<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 January 2012 22:01, John Bird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>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)</div>
<div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>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 clear="all">
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