Re: Ammunition

Christopher Browne wrote:
> pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > To me, the big MySQL issue is that it isn't an open source
> > development project, just a company that distributes code via open
> > source.  They will never be able to keep up with us.
>
> I found the quote from Scott McNealy most ironic:
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,78443,00.html
>
> "If you want to save...money, make the default database MySQL. It's
> free, it's bundled [with Sun's Solaris software], you've got the whole
> open-source community working on making it better. If Yahoo and Google
> can run their entire operations on MySQL, then certainly there's a
> huge chunk of your operations that could run on it as well."
>
> There lies a good question...
>
> How many "open source" developers are _actually_ working on MySQL?
>
> If Scott McNealy is right, then who are those scads of people
> committing code to the tree?   :-)

Zero.  MySQL has full license to the source code, so they can't have
others contributing from outside.

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