Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 02:11:54PM -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
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> What am I missing?

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Ahhh ... I did not realize they were selling a commercial version with
a dual license.  I had thought they were selling support contracts.

I confess I find this weird too.  I can't see why someone wouild want
to distribute their own private label version of MySQL, unless they
were making significant changes, and then I can't see why anyone would
want to buy such a version.  But I have met many people, not just
corporate types, who think $0 = worthless, and $$ not as good as
$$$$$$, even for the exact same piece of gear.

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