Re: MySQL Enterprise - Community split

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> news.postgresql.org wrote:
>> Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
>>> I hope that this list is OK for rumors/information about competitor
>>> moves.
>>>
>>> http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/12/29/where-to-get-recent-mysql-version/
>>>
>>>
>>> It may be old news for others, but at least I didn't know about the
>>> "Recent Policies" at MySQL.
>>
>> I am in contact with mysql ab community department to get some
>> clarifications. If you look at the initial announcement from Kaj, it
>> never discusses anything in the direction of not providing binaries
>> anymore. In the past MySQL AB was always very keen to get OSS users to
>> use their binaries to make bug handling easier. Also Windows users
>> (the bulk of LAMP development is done on WAMP) obviously need those
>> binaries.  So this is a big issue indeed.
>
> Ok, the situation is that they are only doing new binaries for the
> community stuff 4-6 times a year. So there is just a delay with new
> binaries that will likely result in skipping versions from the
> Enterprise tree.

official word:
http://www.planetmysql.org/kaj/?p=82

regards,
Lukas