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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"

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  1. Get Ready... by eno2001 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I see that a definite split of "Premium Linux" vs. "Unsupported Linux" is coming soon to a vendor near you. That doesn't mean that Linux will die, it's just going to smell funny (possibly like pee).

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  2. Re:Generic, huh? by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Simple. Every nickel and dime hosting company uses MySQL so every CMS blog, and forum supports MySQL.
    Up to and including Slashcode.
    It is now catch 22. Everybody uses MySQL because everyone uses MySQL.
    Heck I use MySQL for our CMS because not every module supports PostgreSQL.
    I would much rather use PostgreSQL for everything but I don't have time to re-invent the wheel.

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    See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
  3. Did anyone catch the relationship? by Bright+Apollo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    SUSE and RedHat are also the only IBM supported distros. Is IBM going for MySQL, ala Oracle grabbing Innobase and Sleepycat?

    -BA

  4. Re:Let's fork it! by suntac · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mmm fork MySQL? Why? There is nothing wrong with the code. You could try to fork the support and start a company specialized in MySQL support on Debian.....

    I think there is a market for this. The only thing you need is a couple of good people. You/we(the community) could also create a company GPL style. Create a pool of people willing to devote there time on solving MySQL Debian support problems. Create a ticket like system and assign questions to people in the pool.

    This way you can quickly create a non-profit company with little to non investments. The biggest "problem" is that you have to attract people willing to become part of you expert pool.

    While writing this, it might even be a good challenge to start this..... I will think some more about this. :-) Anyone in? ;-)

    Regards,
    Johan Louwers.

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    Regards, Johan Louwers.
  5. Re:Solution by virtual_mps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you think that mysql support will buy unlimited legal/financial liability for costs incurred by downtime of your mysql installation?

    really?

    seriously?

    hahahahahahaha

    What your support contract buys you is the ability to call someone on the phone. If it makes your boss happy to have someone to call and yell at when shit breaks, well, ok.