I was a MySQL Sales Engineer up til a few weeks ago. I spent 6+ year at
MySQL. MySQL Classic never ever had InnoDB in it. Actually, the reason
for the existence of MySQL Classic was just that: MySQL without InnoDB
for OEMs.
If you wanted a non-GPL MySQL, you had to pay for it. And if MySQL
wanted a non-GPL InnoDB (in the old days, before Oracle), MySQL had to
pay for it. So for the customers that only embedded MyISAM, they could
get by by not having InnoDB included, which would lower the cost for
MySQL, as there was no InnoDB licence to pay.
Note in the above that this is OEM / Embedded only. For MySQL Enterprise
customers InnoDB was always included. Why? Because this was a GPL
distribution, using a GPL InnoDB, so no need for a InnoDB licence.
Simple as that.
In the old scheme then, when I was around, MySQL came in a few different
shapes:
- MySQL Embedded / OEM
-- With or without InnoDB. Two different prices (MySQL Classic being the
low end then). Commercial icence.
- MySQL Enterprise
-- The "supported" MySQL version. Different flavours mainly using
different SLAs and different MySQL Enterprise Monitor functionalities.
GPL Licence.
- MySQL Community Edition - The "good old" GPL downloadable version. GPL
Licence.
/Karlsson
Michael Dykman skrev 2010-11-08 22:47:
I think Jorge Bruehe already has weighed in. That is about as direct
as you are likely to hear unless you have Larry Ellison on facebook.
- michael dykman
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Daevid Vincent<dae...@daevid.com> wrote:
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From: vegiv...@gmail.com [mailto:vegiv...@gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Johan De Meersman
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:26 AM
To: jcbo...@yahoo.com
Cc: MySQL
Subject: Re: Death of MySQL popularity?
You may want to read that again, but with your glasses on :-)
"Subscription" means roughly "commercial support". The (1)
subscript means
"Features only available in Commercial Editions", and is
noted *only* for
Workbench SE, Enterprise Monitor, Enterprise Backup and
Cluster Manager.
I will join you in wondering whether that means Workbench is gonna go
payware, though.
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Christoph Boget
<christoph.bo...@gmail.com>wrote:
http://www.mysql.com/products/
So the free version is going to include only MyISAM? And
you won't be
able to connect using MySQL Workbench (and presumably apps
like MySQL
Query Browser)? Otherwise you have to shell out $2k? Wow. I think
it might be time to start seriously looking at Postgres...
So there definitely is some confusion out there. Can someone from the
@mysql / @oracle camp please confirm or deny the allegations?
http://blog.herlein.com/2010/11/oracle-is-the-borg-enterprise-software-deve
lopment-will-be-assimilated/
http://digitizor.com/2010/11/05/innodb-dropped-from-oracle-mysql-classic-ed
ition/
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