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MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux [UPDATED]

Posted by kdawson on from the any-color-as-long-as-it's-black dept.

volts writes "MySQL quietly deprecated support for most Linux distributions on October 16, when its 'MySQL Network' support plan was replaced by 'MySQL Enterprise.' MySQL now supports only two Linux distributions — Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We learned of this when MySQL declined to sell us support for some new Debian-based servers. Our sales rep 'found out from engineering that the current Enterprise offering is no longer supported on Debian OS.' We were told that 'Generic Linux' in MySQL's list of supported platforms means 'generic versions of the implementations listed above'; not support for Linux in general." Update: 12/13 20:52 GMT by J : MySQL AB's Director of Architecture (and former Slash programmer) Brian Aker corrects an apparent miscommunication in a blog post: "we are just starting to roll out [Enterprise] binaries... We don't build binaries for Debian in part because the Debian community does a good job themselves... If you call MySQL and you have support we support you if you are running Debian (the same with Suse, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu and others)... someone in Sales was left with the wrong information"

8 of 339 comments (clear)

  1. Those mother... by Unoti · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly we need to get some tough mother forkin programmers on this...

  2. Fork or Spoon by Paulitics · · Score: 5, Funny

    MySQL only lets me spoon it.

    But Postgre lets me fork it all night long.

  3. Re:Let's fork it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But if the MySQL coders are still doing good work

    What do you mean by still? It makes you sound like you are trying to claim MySQL was not a fucking toy database for girlymen.

  4. UBUNTU ! Why Hath Thou Foresaken Me ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    UBUNTU ! Why Hath Thou Foresaken Me ? Have I no creed ? Have I no substance ? Am I not a ...woman ?

  5. Re:UBUNTU ! Why Hath Thou Foresaken Me ? by nutznboltz2003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I not a ...woman ?

    Only in WoW...

    Yes, I know, there goes my Karma.
  6. Re:QUIETLY? by Sexy+Commando · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probablly a victim of an injection attack
    ; DROP SUPPORT debian

  7. Re:Bit misleading by Moofie · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's pretty simple. The biggest player in any given space is the Microsoft (or GM) of that space. Having drawn the parallel, you can carry over all the preconceptions about the other space, and stop thinking right there.

    It's apparently very comforting.

    --
    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
  8. Re:Bit misleading by sd.fhasldff · · Score: 2, Funny
    To many of them all with their own quarks it make offering support near impossible.

    Yeah, quarks will do that to ya!

    There has to be an "entanglement" joke in there somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find it.