Re: AW: IBM to start selling MySQL products -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: AW: IBM to start selling MySQL products
From: "Lance Gillespie" <lgillespie@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:48:32 -0700
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I think the major benefit of MySQL
being open source is not that programmers
can modify the source, but that vendors
cannot cause you pain by a forced upgrade
(Oracle) or by deprecating your platform
for marketing reasons (FoxPro) or by
going out of business (dBase).

Lance

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