Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>>    -- Single-Company Project:  the MySQL Project is owned and controlled by a
>>>single company, MySQL AB.   This means that the project lives or dies with
>>>that company, which is currently venture-capital funded.
>>>
>>>
>
>>This is also inaccurate as MySQL is GPL so the project would live on.
>
> They don't have a development community so that would have to be formed
> if the company folds, and as we can see from Firebird/SapDB, that isn't
> trivial.

True, but that doesn't take away from Joshua's point at all.  He is
accurate that MySQL is GPL, and it would live on.  Their interested
install base is large enough to establish a new developer community if
the MySQL company went belly up too.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift