Chris Browne wrote:
> I'm inclined to watch what happens for a while before drawing such
> conclusions.
>
> Sun's "open source" involvements have come with enough caveats that
> I'm inclined to expect a continuation of policies likely to turn off
> non-paying users. And an important reason behind paying $1B is if
> they're mighty interested in growing the revenues from paying users...
I think the biggest impact might be less enthusiasm from Red Hat and
Linux vendors toward MySQL because Sun is a direct Linux competitor.
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