{"id":3667,"date":"2014-02-05T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T00:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2014-02-03T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T11:30:06","slug":"ghosts-of-mysql-past-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/ghosts-of-mysql-past-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of MySQL Past: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

See Part 1<\/a> and Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We rejoin our story with a lawsuit. While MySQL suing Progress NuSphere is not perhaps the first GPL lawsuit that comes to mind, it was the first time that the GPL was tested in court. Basically, the GEMINI storage engine was a proprietary storage engine bundled with a copy of MySQL. Guess what? The GPL was found to be valid and GEMINI was eventually GPLed, and it didn’t really go anywhere after that. Why? Probably some business reasons and also, InnoDB was actually rather good and there wasn’t a lawsuit to enforce the GPL there, making business relationships remarkably easier.<\/p>\n

In 2003 there was a second round of VC funding. The development team increased in size. One thing that MySQL AB did was invest heavily in technology. I think this is what gave the company a lot of value, you need to spend money developing technology if you wish to be seen as a giant and if you wish to be able to provide a high level of quality service to customers.<\/p>\n

MySQL 4.0 went GA in March 2003 while at the same time there were 4.1 and 5.0 development trees. Three concurrent development trees may seem too many – and of course, it was. But these were heady days of working on features that MySQL was missing and ever wanting to gain users and market share. Would all these extra features be able to be added to MySQL? Time would tell…<\/p>\n

The big news of 2003 for MySQL? A partnership with SAP. There was this idea: “run SAP on MySQL” which would push the MySQL Server in a bit of an odd direction. For a start, the bootstrap SQL script for SAP created something like 10,000 tables and loaded gigabytes of data – before you even started setting it up. In 2003, on MySQL 4.0, this didn’t go so well. Why was SAP interested? Well, then you’d be able to run SAP without paying Oracle licenses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See Part 1 and Part 2. We rejoin our story with a lawsuit. 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