Martin,
> What does monty say?
Monty made a submission to EU regulators. I can't find the URL just now.
One-line summary: "Letting Oracle have MySQL is worse than putting the
fox in charge of the henhouse..." (Florian Mueller,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10379870-38.html).
Other URLs:
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/10/press-release-concerning-oraclesun.html
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10379870-38.html
PB
http://www.artfulsoftware.com
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Martin Gainty wrote:
tendency to work "normal working hours" 7am-7pm PST
which could be a problem for someone in Europe, Asia or even GMT+5 who
needs an immediate answer and cant wait until 7am PST
i too would like MySQL to stay OpenSource
there is no better a feeling of applying a patch (for your own
purposes) without having to wait for the corporate leviathans 6 month
cycle to release a minor patch
what does monty say?
Martin Gainty
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> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:48:28 +0000
> Subject: Re: Oracle, Sun and MySQL
> From: j...@butterflysystems.co.uk
> To: l...@dijkmat.nl
> CC: john.dais...@butterflysystems.co.uk;
peter.braw...@earthlink.net; mysql@lists.mysql.com
>
> > 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
>
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