<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dries Buytaert</b> <<a href="mailto:dries.buytaert@gmail.com">dries.buytaert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On 04 Jan 2007, at 03:45, Larry Garfield wrote:<br>> So given the usual speed at which the servers I work with upgrade<br>> their<br>> software, that means I can start thinking about taking advantage of<br>> Falcon's
<br>> feature set somewhere in 2012. I can't wait!<br><br>Unless they backport the engine, of course. I bet they will if their<br>InnoDB license is under fire. (I don't know whether that is the case.)</blockquote>
<div><br>They already forked MySQL 5.2 specially for Falcon. So one can get a beta (or is it alpha?)<br>of MySQL with Falcon NOW. Of course, it will take some time to stabilize, ...etc.<br><br>Interested parties can check their bitkeeper
<a href="http://mysql.bkbits.com/">http://mysql.bkbits.com/</a><br><br>As for InnoDB, it all depends on Oracle. If Oracle raises the price or refuses to renew, then<br>MySQL 's business module (building non-GPL versions of MySQL + Engines) is in trouble.
<br><br>This may not be such an issue since Plan B has already materialized (Falcon), so they<br>can tell Oracle to just buzz off if they pull that trick.<br><br></div></div>