Star MS' Open-Source Strategy: a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by WillM
GNU, GPL, Open Source "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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tomcat
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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


The Community Edition on that link is NOT the same as the Enterprise Edition that's available to paying customers. Enterprise customers have access to enhancements, bug fixes, and rapid updates that aren't listed there. Nice try, though.

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/2047231&from=rss

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