Comments on: MySQL goes Enterprise

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:17:47 +0000

It’s a disease that afflicts SAP employees who spend too much time at the company’s headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.

By: Heidan

Heidan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:02:20 +0000

What does the word ‘Walldorfitis’ means?

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Sun to aquire MySQL « Getting Technical — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:37:15 +0000

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Sun Acquiring MySQL | Venture Chronicles — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:28:41 +0000

[...] Ventures is an investor in MySQL. It was always one of my greatest frustrations at SAP that they (as in SAP the company) would complain about sending over $1b of license revenue to [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:34:00 +0000

Postgres and MySQL certainly have a large community of developers around them. Insofar as EnterpriseDB, like Ingres it is a case of someone realizing that there is money to be made in open source.

I don’t know the DB that well, but for a great many projects could in fact be a good alternative.

By: Raj Bala

Raj Bala — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:36:24 +0000

What do you think about EnterpriseDB? Many people seem to like the fact that it’s Postgres based, but I don’t have any direct experience with it.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:08:27 +0000

Hi Kevin,
When SAP acquired Adabas they renamed it MaxDB. Uptake in the market was modest, mostly limited to existing customers. SAP decided, rightly so, that they didn’t want to be a database company so they gave it to MySQL. But even today, the MaxDB stuff is not integrated with MySQL’s core product, it’s something that SAP wants them to sell alongside their existing stuff, which doesn’t really make sense. Whatever the goal, the reality is that there is little uptake in MaxDB share… and there will never be substantial share on this product. The equity investment was separate and distinct from the partnership, and was based on the strength of MySQL as a company as opposed to anything that SAP was doing with them.

I wish SAP would just get over it and certify MySQL but as long as the group that is responsible for certifying MySQL views the product and company as competitive to their own product – MaxDB – then it’s going to be tough to get it done. It’s a mistake for SAP to not embrace MySQL more closely, IMO.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:55:10 +0000

Hey Jeff, can you confirm my memory here? I recall from years ago when we were both at SAP, that they purchased a database from Software AG (was it Adabase D?) renamed it SAP DB with the hopes of providing a mid-market a ‘free’ alternative to running R/3 on Oracle. When it was clear that that strategy wasn’t going to play out as they desired they cut a co-development/marketing deal with MySQL, made an equity investment, and now the database is called MaxDB for SAP.

When you post on the improved features are you also referring to MySQL’s MaxDB? I’d be interested in your observations regarding MaxDB: i.e. adoption trend, SAP/MySQL committment to develop etc. Do you see SAP certifying any other versions of MySQL for use with NetWeaver?