Comments on: More Thoughts on YHOO/MSFT http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/818/more-thoughts-on-yhoomsft/ The new thing Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:14:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Jeffrey McManus http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/818/more-thoughts-on-yhoomsft/#comment-1093 Jeffrey McManus Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:03:01 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=818#comment-1093 Simple, because Microsoft sells a competing product. Simple, because Microsoft sells a competing product.

]]> By: Sheeri Cabral http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/818/more-thoughts-on-yhoomsft/#comment-1092 Sheeri Cabral Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:17:04 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=818#comment-1092 I think if Microsoft wanted to branch MySQL (like they practically did with SQL Server from Sybase), it would be awesome for MySQL. I doubt that MySQL would lose here; why do you think so? I think if Microsoft wanted to branch MySQL (like they practically did with SQL Server from Sybase), it would be awesome for MySQL.

I doubt that MySQL would lose here; why do you think so?

]]> By: Jeffrey McManus http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/818/more-thoughts-on-yhoomsft/#comment-1091 Jeffrey McManus Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:35:07 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=818#comment-1091 I'm sure they have Oracle somewhere but Yahoo is one of the biggest users of MySQL there is. <a href="http://www.mysql.com/customers/customer.php?id=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.mysql.com/customers/customer.php?id=3</a> I’m sure they have Oracle somewhere but Yahoo is one of the biggest users of MySQL there is.

http://www.mysql.com/customers/customer.php?id=3

]]> By: Stefan http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/818/more-thoughts-on-yhoomsft/#comment-1090 Stefan Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:31:27 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=818#comment-1090 "Big losers here from a tech supplier perspective: FreeBSD and MySQL." From what I know Yahoo has always been an Oracle shop. The one exception I'm aware of is finance.yahoo.com because Jeremy Zawodny was a big fan of MySQL and used it even though they had an Oracle site license. “Big losers here from a tech supplier perspective: FreeBSD and MySQL.”

From what I know Yahoo has always been an Oracle shop. The one exception I’m aware of is finance.yahoo.com because Jeremy Zawodny was a big fan of MySQL and used it even though they had an Oracle site license.

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