On Apr 26, 9:56 am, Michael Vilain <vil...@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
> In article
> <8c133c2c-87a6-4435-9910-f6a735a42...@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,

> I imagine anyone trying to get
> away with doing multi-million row databases on the cheap will get what
> they pay for if they use MySQL. If you want to put your SAP database on
> MySQL, I'd wonder about the CIO considering such a thing.

I can hardly imagine such a thing either. But, MySQL was just
purchased by Sun. So maybe - just maybe - in the not-so-distant
future, we will see the enterprise edition of MySQL running on a
cluster of Solaris servers, and supported by Sun. Running SAP on
something like that might not seem so insane to a CIO.

> AFAIK, it's
> not free for commercial use.

My understanding is that MySQL is free for commercial use, as long as
you don't embed MySQL code in a binary product, and then distribute
that product. However, for serious commercial use, I would expect
companies to use the enterprise edition.

> you have to shutdown MySQL to ensure database integrity.

I thought that replication, and clustering, were ways to get around
that limitation.