Oracle Drops MySQL Support for IBM i

“Citing “very low demand,” MySQL announced last month that it
will no longer provide the MySQL database running on the IBM i
operating system. The company, which is owned by IBM archrival
Oracle, says it will continue to provide source code and limited
product support to customers who want to work with the database on
IBM i. Representatives with IBM Rochester say they are looking into
ways to continue supporting the open source database, possibly with
Zend Technology.

“On December 7, MySQL announced the end of life (EOL) of MySQL
binaries it developed for several operating systems, including
i5/OS V5R4, IBM i version 6.1, AIX version 5.3, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux version 3, SuSE Enterprise Linux version 9, OpenSuSE Linux
version 9, and the generic X86 Linux distribution developed with
Intel’s ICC compiler. New support was added for the FreeBSD and
Fedora operating systems.”

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