From: Daevid Vincent
Date: November 8 2010 9:41pm
Subject: RE: Death of MySQL popularity?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vegivamp@stripped [mailto:vegivamp@stripped] On 
> Behalf Of Johan De Meersman
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:26 AM
> To: jcboget@stripped
> Cc: MySQL
> Subject: Re: Death of MySQL popularity?
> 
> You may want to read that again, but with your glasses on :-)
> 
> "Subscription" means roughly "commercial support". The (1) 
> subscript means
> "Features only available in Commercial Editions", and is 
> noted *only* for
> Workbench SE, Enterprise Monitor, Enterprise Backup and 
> Cluster Manager.
> 
> I will join you in wondering whether that means Workbench is gonna go
> payware, though.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Christoph Boget
> <christoph.boget@stripped>wrote:
> 
> > http://www.mysql.com/products/
> >
> > So the free version is going to include only MyISAM?  And 
> you won't be
> > able to connect using MySQL Workbench (and presumably apps 
> like MySQL
> > Query Browser)?  Otherwise you have to shell out $2k?  Wow.  I think
> > it might be time to start seriously looking at Postgres...



So there definitely is some confusion out there. Can someone from the
@mysql / @oracle camp please confirm or deny the allegations?

http://blog.herlein.com/2010/11/oracle-is-the-borg-enterprise-software-deve
lopment-will-be-assimilated/

http://digitizor.com/2010/11/05/innodb-dropped-from-oracle-mysql-classic-ed
ition/