I have a few vertical apps, all Windows O/S based Server apps due to my target market being required to use Windows. VFP has been great, but I am beginning to creep up on a capacity (2Gb/file) issue. MySQL looked okay until they bumped their Server fees for commercial distribution. My clients are used to not paying for a database Server, so that limits my choices. I have been focused on PostGreSQL as it has no license fee whatever for personal, commercial or commercial with a license fee based app using it. For In House systems I am going to have to use Windows 2000/2003+ Server with CAL licenses. But for any web based stuff I am going to migrate to a Linux Server to host the PostgreSQL Server(s). Walking now, will be running and sprinting by early Spring.
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen the Cook > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 10:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [NF] What is the cost for MySQL anyway? > > > Ed Leafe <> wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:53 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> the few times I've read the mySQL website it said that mySQL is not > >> free when its used in a commercial application > > > > The GPL only restricts distribution. As long as you are only using > > it in-house, you do not need to license it. > > I understand this point. Seems that a few people here have vertical apps > and may be inclined to think that the product, MySQL, is free. > > > > > Stephen Russell > DBA / .Net Developer > > Memphis TN 38115 > 901.246-0159 > > "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided > missiles and misguided men." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/ > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 12/9/2006 > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
