Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

> And since MySQL already has got the upperhand in terms of marketing, Oracle
> would buy MySQL to make it as the low-end alternative.  Never mind the
> lack/immature features in MySQL such as stored proc or trigger.

Mysql 5 has stored procedures and triggers.

The fact that you have to change between different "storage engines" to
use transactions properly etc is a little weird (and some of the new
engines are just bizarre), but that's beside the point.

90% of open-source software is written to use only mysql (and it's not
easy to switch to another db) - search freshmeat or sourceforge for
anything postgresql related.. not much there.

Then, even if you do write something to use postgresql a lot of hosts
don't support it anyway ('mysql is good enough').. so you're stuck.