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Sun acquires MySQL

Posted by Brian on 20 January 2008

In Jonathan Schwartz's recent blog post he talks about why Sun purchased MySQL and what it means for them and the internet industry at large. Sun paid $1,000,000,000 USD for MySQL which had $50,000,000 USD in revenue last year.

What does Sun get out of this? 

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Google Summer of Code update on multiple database support

Posted by Sigurd on 18 October 2007

Philipp Kreen, one of our Google Summer of Coders, is still working on his project: a great example of how Google has given us open source volunteers from all over the world who are contributing to make SilverStripe better!

Philipp's project was one of the most awkward to complete: improving the core such that it could run on more than just the fast but simple MySQL database, and extend to the Postgres and Microsoft SQL server, through the use of PHP5 data-objects (PDO).

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Google Summer of Code Fruit #6: Multiple-database support

Posted by Sigurd on 13 July 2007

While we freeze in New Zealand, I struggle to conceive Philipp Krenn working on his Google project in Austria in anything but blizzard-ravaged Alps... Supposedly it is summer holidays there; our only proof is the progress he's made on allowing SilverStripe to work with different types of databases!

Because allowing SilverStripe to talk to different types of databases deeply affects the core, most of the time thus far has been researching all the various options and deciding upon the system architecture. ADOdb, ADOdb Lite, PDO, MDB / MDB2, Propel, Creole, and EZPDO were among the options considered...

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