Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to MaxSQL is a MySQL frontend to Sleepycat's database

They gave it up without a fight because the Slashdot folks paid them to do it.  Turns out that while all the rabid MySQL fans on Slashdot were true believers in the party line that transactions are useless and just slow things down, the Slashdot folks themselves knew differently.  After getting bought out, improving MySQL (via financing change) was one of the  strategies they pursued to improve the stability and reliability of Slashdot.

I'm not terribly familiar with Berkely DB.  When OpenACS supports both  InterBase and Postgres, I'll be happy.  If people don't want to use OpenACS because it doesn't support My/MaxSQL I personally won't care.