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