Be Cautious About MySQL Licensing (was Re: Database suggestions?)

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/15/05 12:35 AM, "Dan Shafer" <revdan at danshafer.com> wrote:

Hi Dan,

I think Lynn can tell many nice things about Valentina Embedded Server
license for Commercial Application Developers.

You can read here also
    http://www.paradigmasoft.com
  
 
> In this discussion, it's important not to lose sight of Chipp
> Walters' early comment that MySQL is NOT free for commercial use. I
> was always under the impression that it was but when Chipp raised
> that with me about 18 months ago and I went to the MySQL folks to
> investigate, I found a dismayingly confusing plethora of license
> terms and warnings that frankly scared me away from using the product.
> 
> If you are doing commercial deployment of Rev relational database
> apps, and you don't want to or can't factor in the MySQL pricing, you
> need to confine your choices to PostgreSQL, Valentina, and, if you're
> writing single-user apps, altSQLite.
> 
> FWIW, MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) has cleaned up its message a lot
> in the last year or so. They are now much clearer about when you need
> their commercial license (at $595/server/yr. for basic support and
> $1495/server/yr. for extended support) and when the free GPL license
> will suffice.

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Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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