MySQL to get injection of Google code

Wednesday, October 24. 2007

MySQL to get injection of Google code

MySQL has laid out its software road map through 2009, including some code contributed by Google and security improvements that are due in MySQL 7.0.

Earlier this year Google signed a Contributor License Agreement, which provides the legal framework under which MySQL can include code from another company in its database, MySQL co-founder and Vice President David Axmark said on Tuesday.

Google is secretive about the distributed architecture underlying its services, but it's known to be one of MySQL's biggest users, running hundreds or even thousands of its databases worldwide.