Bloomberg.com : Technology News
"They're really very low-end products,'' Oracle Senior Vice President Andy Mendelsohn said at an investor conference this week. "I'm not too concerned about them being a viable competitor as yet.''
This stuff cracks me up. They are not low end products, they are products for a differnt niche. mySQL is geared towards smaller applications, places where you need to be able to customize the database, and they do their thing extremely well. If you don't need bloatware, its a perfect choice, and as it gets better (read: adds even more load balancing, backup, and other such features) it will continue to gain ground on the larger companies. That's what happens when you make *good* software.
Screw you Microsoft!