Fred’s Cozy Little Nook

It has caught my attention that MySQL is behaving like a tyrant with their Enterprise support policies. Basically, if your company has multiple servers running MySQL but only one is covered under its “Gold” ($2000 per sever per year), or its “Platinum” coverage ($5000 per server per year), MySQL might choose to sue you for the other machines not covered, even though you have never opened up a service request on them.

The details of this are still coming in, so stay tuned. This represents a black mark on MySQL in the eve of the Sun acquisition.  Since this predates the Sun acquisition, Sun Microsystems is “blameless” in all of this.

But this flies totally in the face of the entire notion of the FOSS concepts. If what I’ve heard turns out to be true, this will represent a black mark for the entire OpenSource community.

Well, I managed to do “the impossible” — go from complete ignorance to an Oracle “guru” in just  a couple of weeks. Well, I don’t count myself a “guru” in Oracle at all, nor do I really want to be. I do consider myself to be a MySQL guru, however. At some point, I should do a more lengthly blog comparing the two databases! Stay tuned!