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Novell to Ship MySQL With NetWare 6

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday October 21, 2002 @06:25AM from the bundling-up-for-the-winter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Coming close on the heels of their announcement that they've ported PostgreSQL to NetWare, Novell announced today that they will begin shipping MySQL with NetWare 6. Owing to customer and partner doubts about the GPL, Novell has chosen the commercial version of MySQL, rather than the GPL'ed version."

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Why bother to ship MySQL at all? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-21 06:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

Postgres does everything you could ask for, and it's BSD style licensed?

Don't get me wrong, MySQL is a great piece of software, but if they have a problem with the GPL, I don't think that it's worth buying a commercial MySQL license, when you could use Postgres free of charge.