Thanks Matt :).
On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Matthew Montgomery wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 12:14 -0400, Vidyut Luther wrote:
>> Hey Guys,
>> I think with the following news...
>>
>> http://developers...
>>
>> I think the urgency to get edumacated on Postgres increases, perhaps
>> Matt can give us more details than the /. commenters about the
>> roadmap.. I'm not too concerned with the "closed source" aspect, as I
>> don't know how to code in C or C++, but
>> I'm curious what happens to the community edition..and prices.
>
> This is a grossly uninformed /. article and group of posters/pg fan
> boys. MySQL is *NOT* closed sourcing any parts of the the mysqld
> server. No way, no how! As I explained at the meetup some features
> to
> the online backup API planned for 6.0 may be released as plug-ins
> under
> a closed-source license.
>
> These will include encryption, compression and native (binary) backup
> drivers for some engines (a la. ibbackup). Community editions of
> mysqld
> will continue to be GPL'd as they always have and they will receive
> the
> same online backup API the Enterprise edition gets. The Sun/MySQL
> created plug-ins will interface the same public backup API everyone
> else
> has access to.
>
> If anyone wants to reproduce the proprietary backup modules Sun/MySQL
> creates under a different license they are free to do so. We want to
> encourage outside development in and around MySQL to a greater degree
> than we have seen to date. We are trying to encourage additional
> OpenSource development with this move not diminish it.
>
> Regarding Daniel's comments:
>
> "I have it on good authority, not at liberty to say who cause they
> don't
> want to go on record, that Jonathan Schwartz was unaware of this
> change
> and the hammer is coming down pretty hard on a few MySQL execs."
>
> I would take this with a grain of salt as well. 1) There is no
> "change". MySQL has always release some products under a closed
> license
> and some under GPL. 2) MySQL has been experimenting with various
> revenue models around open source for a while. The decision to
> release
> some features of the new online backup system as closed source plug-
> ins
> has been discussed and debated (quite hotly at times) internally for
> quite a while. This should not be news to anyone internal to MySQL,
> least of all Martin's superiors. 3) Martin had been promised a high
> degree of autonomy to continue running the MySQL business unit as he
> sees fit. It's highly unlikely that Schwartz will now come down and
> meddle at this level because of this ill-informed rant.
>
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> Sun Microsystems Inc., Database Group
> San Antonio, Texas, USA
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