Re: Sun buys MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Sun buys MySQL
Date
Msg-id 200801171849.m0HInG920340@momjian.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Sun buys MySQL  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
List pgsql-advocacy
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@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://postgres.enterprisedb.com

  + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +

pgsql-advocacy by date:

Previous
From: "Selena Deckelmann"
Date:
Subject: Re: User group liaison
Next
From: "Dave Page"
Date:
Subject: Re: User group liaison