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Do people really think that developers embrace MySQL because it is open
source and is therefore easy to write programs that interface with it? How
many of these developers actually modify the open source code and resubmit
it to the open source committee? Or are these developers gobbling down
MySQL because it's free? We contracted with one developer to develop an
application to talk, via Java, to SQL server. He originally developed it
on MySQL. Was that because he could customize MySQL, or because MySQL is
free?
I am also sure that once MySQL has reached a certain level of saturation
that, at it's price, it became the defacto standard for numerous
applications. Does anything that MySQL would be as popular as it is if,
although still open source, you had to pay a license for each
installation. Gee, you'd still be able to customize it to your hearts
content (like that really happens that often).
Rob Berendt
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