What is a link?

A link is a reference on a web page that references some other place on the same page or somewhere else on the Internet. If text is “clickable” that means it is a hyperlink. You can identify a hyperlink in a number of ways but the easiest way is to move your mouse pointer over the top of a picture or word and if your mouse cursor change to look like a small hand then the item you are looking at, is a link and you can click it.

Yes links are great, but if you are a regular user you most likely have it bookmarked or in your cache. I understand the re-organization of MySQL.com and this is something we all have to accept, with ORACLE being the new owners. We went through similar changes with SUN, like the certified candidates list. We complained, they did nothing and we accepted it. ORACLE is going to make changes whether the community likes it or not. We still know where to go to get to dev.mysql.com or MySQL.org

I’m actually providing a link in my blog-roll for those who need a link. I do suggest that we all make comments to ORACLE asking them to provide the tools we need to be successful DBA’s or Developers. We also need to make sure we watch out for bigger changes like, no more support for community releases or stop development on MySQL.

As a community we still can provide each other support with sites like:

• MySQL Performance Blog
• XAPRB
• High Availability MySQL
• Planet MySQL

Sorry for the ones I forgot as this list can go ON and ON If you want me to add to my blog roll let me and I will. I also apologize for defending ORACLE but give them a chance, they “might do good things”. We know some of the changes will be bad but, maybe not all? Who knows.