IBM, MS reject MySQL “So

IBM, MS reject MySQL

“So far, I still see MySQL and some of the other open-source databases as really niche players,” said Sheryl Tullis, product manager for the SQL Server database at Microsoft.

Lets see, it isn’t as good as more established products, but it is good enough for a lot of tasks and it is a whole hell of alot cheaper. Sounds superficially like a typical disruptive technology.