On 10/30/06, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I honestly believe that if companies like the yahoo and > > google, who use mySql to run portions of their websites, > > figure to prove that a whopping $20,000 licence for MS > > or Oracle just is not worth it. > > Things just aren't as simple as this. Companies like these would pay far > more than $20K for either SQL Server or Oracle, and they're large enough > that they have incredible economies of scale when they implement and > maintain open source solutions. It's my understanding that Google, for > example, maintains a customized version of CentOS, a Linux distribution, for > use with their search servers. If you have enough identical servers, that's > a sensible value proposition, but most of us don't come close to that.
Not to mention the fact that many companies that use MySQL pay *significant* amounts of money to MySQL for support. The kind of support that means Monty or David or one of the other senior developers *calls them back directly*. Or pays MySQL to implement specific features. Or spends $$$ on their own extensions to MySQL and have to contribute them back because of the GPL. Or hires the MySQL consulting team for $$$ to get up and running since there are, conservatively, about 1 kabillion possible options for configuring performance. Also remember that one of the options MySQL licensing options is free *under the GPL*, which has intellectual property implications. Also note that MySQL will license you a non-GPL-encumbered version of MySQL if you're willing to pay for it -- the new Enterprise offering has changed a bit from the old $695/server for MySQL Pro, but it's not much worse. MySQL is not just about free as in beer -- it's free as in freedom. If you're in it just for free beer, you'll might not be satisfied ;) -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258690 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
