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.