[Building Sakai] mysql transitions ..

[Sam Ottenhoff]

I recommend checking out Percona (http://www.percona.com/).  They provide
24x7 support and also provide repackaged MySQL with a forked InnoDB plugin
called XtraDB that performs very well.


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Kenwrick Chan <kchan at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> Sorry to have missed this message.  We have an enterprise support contract
> for MySQL that's going to lapse this August.  As you probably know MySQL
> was purchased by a larger DB vendor.   I'm not the person that's working
> with the current MySQL vendor, but he mentioned that they are currently
> unwilling to set a price on how much it would cost to extend enterprise
> support*.  We are not using the "hot" backup tool but we are using the
> enterprise monitoring tool.  We've never contacted tech support for
> assistance.  In fact, since we're currently still on 2.7.x our installed
> version 5.1 is no longer supported.  So we are evaluating our options [our
> instance of sakai is not the only MySQL database though].
>
> -kenwrick
> ** I'm not sure if the technical term for this is "playing chicken".*
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Mark J. Norton <markjnorton at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
>
>>  >   it's become an issue for our us "license-wise"
>>
>> What do you mean by that, Kenwick?  MySQL is distributed under the GPL.
>> As long as your institution downloads and installs it yourself, there
>> shouldn't be a problem.  Can you share more details?
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>>
>> On 5/29/2013 9:06 PM, Kenwrick Chan wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>> Just wondering if any campus had anecdotal info to share about migrating
>> from mysql?  Apparently it's become and issue for our us "license-wise" so
>> we're considering options.  Right now we're still on 2.7.x .. probably for
>> the next 6 months or so.  I know some campuses have tried mariadb.
>>
>>  Thanks!
>> -Kenwrick
>>
>>
>>
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