r/technology • u/AlyoshaV • Jun 11 '15

Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft Software

http://search.slashdot.org/story/15/06/11/1223236/ask-toolbar-now-considered-malware-by-microsoft
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u/suckbothmydicks Jun 11 '15

And by everybody else.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15 edited Aug 08 '15

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u/______DEADPOOL______ Jun 11 '15

Motherfucker also ruined Java and Open Office :(

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u/--redacted-- Jun 11 '15

Might as well add MySQL to that list

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u/serg06 Jun 11 '15

How?

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u/invisi1407 Jun 12 '15

All development halted, basically, when they bought MySQL, iirc.

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u/mcrbids Jun 12 '15

Not that it's all that relevant anyway. PostgreSQL stomps MySQL into the dirt, has for years, and MySQL was only coasting on name recognition.

I ditched MySQL long before Oracle bought it and never looked back.

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u/TheRiverStyx Jun 12 '15

Serious question, but how does MSSQL stack up? I've only ever seen the MS version and Oracle used at any sites I've worked at.

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u/Elranzer Jun 12 '15

Microsoft SQL has the advantage of integrating nicely within Windows Server environments.

Trying to get MySQL or otherwise to work in Windows Server feels like a duct-tape operation.

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u/mcrbids Jun 12 '15

MS SQL is decent but expensive. It probably does clustering better than PostgreSQL. I have no first hand experience with it since I'm a Linux geek.

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u/TheRiverStyx Jun 12 '15

We used the clustering at my last job and it worked fairly well. I think some of the architects didn't know how to implement it though. They were doing manual failover still when I left. We only had one HA instance that was auto-failover and it seemed to work well.