David- There are many of us out there who have a variety of DBs to choose from CodeBase, InterBase, FileMaker, Access..Before selecting MySQL or any other DB make sure it works for your client's needs..Otherwise you just would be tossing good money out the window... Regards, -Martin > > Hello David, > > > > Since you were kind enough to clarify some matters on licensing I was > > hoping you would also be open to suggestions. Instead of charging a > > flat fee for each copy of MySQL that is resold why not charge a > > percentage up to a certain point. It might make it a bit easier for > > developers with inexpensive applications to choose your product. If I > > know that MySQL is going to be, for example, a constant ten percent of > > my sale cost I can price more competitively for the market. The is > > defiantly a boon for developers who are selling applications for the > > forty to sixty dollar market. As they say, ten percent of something is > > more than ten percent of nothing. > > Well we have always done percentage deals in some cases. The important > point is that negotiating a percentage deals takes some human time. So > it has to be a minimum total amount for us to make a profit on it. Sales > people need to be paid to! > > > If this pricing scheme will not work for MySQL can you please explain why? I am genuinely curious. > > It depends on the total amount of money involved. > > /David > > > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Axmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:14 PM > > To: Damir Dezeljin > > Cc: MySQL List > > Subject: Re: InterBase vs. Mysql > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 08:14, Damir Dezeljin wrote: > > > Firstly excuse my poor english ;))) > > > > > > I read the entire mail thread. I'm useing MySQL for our own data storage > > > (I use it to store our oceanographic data for internal use) - I guess that > > > I don't need a commercial license for this. > > > > > > I have another question ... if I will do a commercial program in future > > > which will use MySQL as backend, do I need to buy only one commercial > > > license to link the program or does any customer need a commercial > > > license if I don't want that my code to be GPLed? > > > > You need to buy a license for each distributed/sold version of your > > product that contains MySQL. > > > > But there are no limits on the number of clients that connects to that > > MySQL server of number of CPUs in the machine or so (like with our big > > proprietary competitors). > > > > /David (MySQL Co-Founder) > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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