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

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Knezevic, Mihael wrote:

i'm using mysql for a couple of my apps as a database backend and it was more
of a natural choice:

- easy to install - installs on windows and linux (though more easily on linux
with tools like apt etc.)
- easy to connect to (from various programming languages)
- good documentation (database and driver)
- no problems at all
- don't have to pay for it

the fact that it is open source is not at all a fact that motivated me to
choose mysql. i think 99,999% of all application developers wouldn't even
consider changing the source of the database.

Although there's significant truth here, how much of the reasons come out of those few .001% of developers (and/or documenters and/or testers, etc.) who contributed to make it easy to install, easy to connect to, well documented, reasonably problem free and still cheap?

Like it or not, most of the value of any decent open-source project comes directly out of it being open-source. It's irrelevant how few contribute. It's the fact that contributions do happen and that others know exactly what those contributions are.

Tom Liotta

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