Summary: Microsoft is preparing to poach users/customers of the most ubiquitous Free database software

SEVERAL MONTHS ago we showed that Microsoft was embracing and extending MySQL in some special sense. Now there's this in the news. From Mary Jo Foley:

Microsoft tests tool for migrating MySQL to SQL Server

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It’s no secret that even though MySQL has been a Microsoft partner, it also is a Microsoft competitor. And ever since Oracle made overtures to buy Sun and (get MySQL in the process), Microsoft’s been even more of a foe.

Given that context, it’s probably not too surprising that Microsoft is readying a tool designed to help customers migrate from MySQL to SQL Server and/or SQL Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-hosted version of its database. That tool is currently in the early test stage (Community Technology Preview 1), and is downloadable from the Microsoft Download Center.

Everyone knows that Microsoft is a terrible partner. Another very ubiquitous database, Sqlite, is being embraced and extended by the Mono people.

Those who have been speaking about Monty's connections with Microsoft can make further speculations, but speculations are all they can ever be. ⬆

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