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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RE[4]: If they were really after FOSS...
by DrillSgt on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 02:00
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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
RE[5]: If they were really after FOSS...
by tomcat on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 02:37
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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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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.
See http://www.betanews.com/article/print/MySQL_to_Distribute_Commercia...
That's like Microsoft handing out source code for its Jet database engine but reserving the source code for SQL Server for paying customers. Same basic premise.