Slashdot | 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta

Slashdot | 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta: "# So, to the educated masses: can anyone speculate about this releases capabilities? The list of requirements would be: 550GB, projected to be 1TB by 2007?
# 2500 tables
# Full-text searching in approximately 1500 tables
# Queries that routinely join 25-150 tables
# ~800 stored procedures
# ~1500 views
# ~1000 triggers
# 500-750 inserts/updates per second average, 20000 inserts per second peak, (approximately 40M new rows per day)
# 1800-2500 queries per second average, 15000 queries per second peak


Is MySQL 5.x the answer to my prayers? Or just a cruel reminder of why MS software costs what it does?"