The Ups and Downs of MySQL AB

Wannabe Code Monkey writes "Forbes has an article about a recent MySQL deal with SCO and the reaction from the open source community: "It's been a rough week for Marten Mickos, the chief executive of open source database maker MySQL AB. First his most dreaded rival, Oracle acquired a company that supplies a key piece of MySQL's software, a move that could make life difficult for Uppsala, Sweden-based MySQL, which has the most popular open source database. If that wasn't bad enough, Mickos is being denounced as a traitor by noisy fanatics in the open source software community because last month he dared to make a deal with SCO Group, a company reviled by fans of Linux and other open source software.""

Comments

Let their money be drained

[schestowitz]

Gosh, SCO have not run out of money yet? I thought the Web site implied they have: http://www.linuxstolescocode.com/ (hint: see error page).

Dan Lyons at his finest.

[DjReagan]

"It was classic Groklaw, ripe with paranoia and nonsensical conspiracy theories, and replete with loads of self-righteous huffing and puffing about morality."

Hello Pot? This is Kettle.

Thanks MySQL!

[matchboy]

Dear MySQL,

Ever since you and joined forces, my PostgreSQL hosting and consulting business has gone up. On top of that, several existing customers have begun asking how they can migrate their applications from MySQL to PostgreSQL. While I am happy to hear that you finally got yourself some stored procedures and other advanced features... it saddens me that you're doing business with a company (SCO) that thinks that one of your business models is unconstitutional. You are tainted now. However, I really just wanted to say thanks for the extra work that have you provided me. It's no secret that being a professional PostgreSQL consultant is going to be a highly valuable skill in the coming few years...there is already a shortage. Thanks for sending people to the world's most advanced open source database server!

Former MySQL fan,
Me

Re:Learn from the IBM case.

[AnObfuscator]

Now they're accepting SCO money to "partner" with them to develop MySQL so it works better on SCO's server software.

uhhhh...

From GrokLaw's interview with Marten Mickos:
no money went to SCO from MySQL, so MySQL is not supporting SCO financially

So, MySQL isn't accepting SCO money.

From The official Press Release:
As part of the agreement, the companies will work together on a range of joint marketing, sales, training, business development and support programs that will benefit customers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Additionally, SCO will include a trial subscription to the MySQL Network enterprise database service with each new copy of SCO OpenServer -- and offer full MySQL Network subscriptions through its reseller channel.

So neither MySQL nor SCO is writing any special code -- they're just cooperating on marketing and training support.

From a Cnet article on the subject:
Part of the bad blood in the suit stems from a flopped partnership called Project Monterey under which IBM, SCO and now-extinct Sequent agreed to create a version of Unix for Intel's Itanium processors. SCO shared expertise with IBM about how best to run Unix on Intel processors for that project, the suit said.

So, Project Monterey was a joint venture to rewrite an operating system for a new ISA. I fail to see any significant similarities between Project Monterey and the MySQL/SCO deal.

Nice FUD, though.

Re:Well now

[jadavis]

A brighter LAMP: Linux Apache Middleware PostgreSQL

Re:MySQL, SCO, and Fanatical Fools.

[QuickFox]

I think SCO sucks as much as the next guy,

I suppose this "next guy" would be me, as I'm the first guy to reply to your post. Right?

You have some nerve, saying that SCO and I suck equally.

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