MySQL users are upset about plans Sun Microsystems disclosed this week to keep some strategic planned features — and the source code — closed. Only paying customers will get access to the new database features.Sun acquired MySQL in February and confirmed the new online backup capabilities that are under development will only be available to MySQL Enterprise customers. Most of the software’s users have the free MySQL Community edition.
The details emerged this week at MySQL’s annual user conference in Santa Clara, Calif., where Sun also revealed it will delay the release of MySQL 5.1, the latest upgrade, until June to fix bugs.
The news has caused an uproar in open source circles. What say you? Does long-time MySQL contributor Jeremy Cole have a point when he says this is leading MySQL “even further down the path of getting the RHEL/Fedora model backward.”
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5 Comments Add your own
1. rick | August 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I guess postgresql would be a good alternitive to mysql. Not as user friendly, but has sub-queries built-in.
2. Angela Atwood | November 22nd, 2008 at 11:30 am
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3. thomas | April 30th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
very usefull
4. Dan | July 1st, 2009 at 3:47 pm
This isn’t good for open source. If it becomes too closed source it will fork off a project for open source MySQL. I have seen this happen before with projects like this. Hopefully sooner than later.
5. matt | August 26th, 2009 at 8:49 am
What crap. Good work Sun….wait for the open-source community to mak eMySQL wildly popular and then wade-in and profit off their efforts. My new name for them is “Microsun”
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