[Watford] MySQL

[Yvan Seth]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:56:24AM +0200, Yvan Seth wrote:
> We briefly discussed the future of MySQL post-Sun in the last meeting,
> speculating on whether or not Sun would try to make it less open.  Well,
> some relevant news just hit /.
> 
>     http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/16/2337224
>   ->http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/04/14/just-announced-mysql-to-launch-new-features-only-in-mysql-enterprise/
> 
> Sun/MySQL have road-mapped new features which will not be open.
> Importantly there is a comment added to the blog post by Marten Mickos
> (former MySQL CEO, now Sun's database SVP) confirming this.

Marten Mickos has added good follow-ups to the /. posting:
    http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=525246&cid=23098626
    http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=525246&cid=23098824

-Yvan