Sun Says It's Time For Mysql 5.4

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Sun says it's time for MySQL 5.4

Three months after 5.1

By Timothy Prickett Morgan

25th April 2009 00:10 GMT

With all the noise about database and application software maker Oracle shelling out $5.6bn to acquire Sun Microsystems, the preview of the MySQL 5.4 relational database slipped through a lot of cracks when it was announced this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara.

Sun just announced MySQL 5.1 back in December 2008, so people were probably not expecting a new release so soon - and certainly not one called 5.4. No one ever said that IT vendors had to be consistent.

The big enhancement coming with MySQL 5.4 is scalability, which was desperately needed if MySQL was to compete with alternatives such as Oracle 11g, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, and Informix. While MySQL is one of the underpinnings of the Web and is arguably the most popular database in the history of computing (over 100 million downloads), the money is in transaction processing back in boring old corporate data centers and MySQL, as Sun has demonstrated in its quarterly financial reports, just doesn't rake in the bucks ($133m in billions in the first six months of Sun's fiscal 2009 ended in December).

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