It is like any other open source project - free is good and less then %.5
percent of the people using it will ever modify the source or even provide
feedback for that matter.
I use MySQL because it is free, solid, well supported/accepted, and fast.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM to start selling MySQL products
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
midrange.com
