Sun/MySQL Reducing or Eliminating Support for Other OSes?

Written April 9, 2009 in mysql

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Two years ago, I reported a bug in MySQL Query Browser that caused it to crash on OS X and Linux. For those not in the know, MySQL Workbench is an attempt to get a GUI tool comparable to Microsoft’s SQL Explorer off the ground.

Today, the bug was updated and changed to “unsupported” status. According to the MySQL website, the only supported platform for MySQL Workbench is Windows. This is quote odd, because it seems that MySQL has been working hard to release a cross-platform version of it’s workbench as recently as one week ago.

I suppose this is why Drizzle is getting such a huge groundswell of support behind it: MySQL’s development efforts have been fractured and mismanaged so badly at this point that nothing can save the company or it’s products.

Update: Apparently they’re phasing out Query Browser and the other GUI tools in favor of making workbench cross-browser. I got confused because I filed a bunch of bugs at the same time, most of them dealing with Workbench crashes.

1 comment on ' Sun/MySQL Reducing or Eliminating Support for Other OSes? '

  1. Hey Karl,

    it would be good if you, instead of just adding an Update paragraph, would edit the article. Otherwise search engines pick it up with plain wrong info like Workbench would be supported only on Windows.

      Written by Mike Lischke on May 04, 2009 at 6:33am

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