> On Nov 11, 2009, at 9:34 AM, John Daisley wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 23:50 -0600, Peter Brawley wrote: >>> European regulators agree with Monty that the Oracle-Sun deal threatens >>> database competition. Apparently Oracle means to play hardball. >>> Meanwhile >>> Sun revenue fell 25% in 3rd quarter 2009; who else but an >>> anti-competitive >>> giant would take a chance on buying Sun now? Story here: >>> http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14840272&; >>> source=features_box1. >> What I am more concerned about at the moment is how much the uncertainty >> over the deal is hurting MySQL? >> >> I was recently in a project planning meeting where MySQL was dismissed >> completely because nobody could give guarantees about where MySQL was >> going. There were a lot of concerns over where future development would >> go and a fear that when the deal goes through Oracle may slowly raise >> support and training costs to the sort of levels applicable to Oracle >> database products. These kind of arguments seem impossible to counter >> for as long as the uncertainty continues and I for one wish they would >> just resolve the situation either way very quickly because its hurting >> my business and open source software! > > Please remember that there are 3rd parties offering MySQL support already > now, outside of MySQL AB. > > I'm pretty sure that should Oracle raise these prices, 3rd parties will > take up that part of the market pretty quickly. > > > > Liz
I am aware of this Liz but corporate customers like to see support coming from 'source'. There is also a bit of an unknown with 3rd party support whereas MySQL's own support has a very good reputation and from personal experience I know it to be second to none. Regards John -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
