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Re: Sun buys MySQL
- From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
- To: Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
- Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
- Subject: Re: Sun buys MySQL
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:49:16 -0500 (EST)
- Message-id: <200801171849(dot)m0HInG920340(at)momjian(dot)us>
Chris Browne wrote: > I'm inclined to watch what happens for a while before drawing such > conclusions. > > Sun's "open source" involvements have come with enough caveats that > I'm inclined to expect a continuation of policies likely to turn off > non-paying users. And an important reason behind paying $1B is if > they're mighty interested in growing the revenues from paying users... I think the biggest impact might be less enthusiasm from Red Hat and Linux vendors toward MySQL because Sun is a direct Linux competitor. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
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