MySQL Outpacing Oracle In Wake of Acquisition

snydeq writes "Results from the 2010 Eclipse User Survey reveal interesting trends surrounding open source usage and opinions, writes InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues. Linux usage among developers is on the rise, at the expense of Windows, and MySQL has pulled ahead of Oracle, by a factor of 3-to-2, as the database of choice among Eclipse developers. 'The data demonstrate that fears surrounding Oracle's control over MySQL have not resulted in lower use of MySQL in favor of an alternative open source database,' Rodrigues writes."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F06%2F12%2F1450207%2FMySQL-Outpacing-Oracle-In-Wake-of-Acquisition" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=MySQL+Outpacing+Oracle+In+Wake+of+Acqu isition%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9cZ4ce" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/06/12/1450207/MySQL-Outpacing-Oracle-In-Wake-of-Acquisition?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LhnM0zRVwgD1fcJLKfEWnMnb4MU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LhnM0zRVwgD1fcJLKfEWnMnb4MU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LhnM0zRVwgD1fcJLKfEWnMnb4MU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LhnM0zRVwgD1fcJLKfEWnMnb4MU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/p4KLxIWN_a8" height="1" width="1"/

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