Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Does Microsoft have an open-source strategy - beyond finding new ways to thwart Linux and other non-proprietary wares? Sam Ramji, Microsoft's Director of Platform Technology Strategy and the company's Open Source Software Lab, says it does. I met with Ramji last week when he was passing through New York on his way to Europe, and had a chance to ask him to provide a succinct definition of what Microsoft means when it refers to its own 'open-source strategy'."
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"No, wrong. There are two editions of mySQL: the Enterprise Server and the Community Server. Source code for the Community Server (as the name implies) is available to everyone, but source code to the Enterprise Server is available only to paying customers."
Interesting. Someone better tell mySQL AB about that then so they can remove it from the download page. The difference between Community and Enterprise is support and redistribution in a commercial product, as well as patches, which will only appear as source form for the community edition, or rolled into the next community release.
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html