MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux [UPDATED]

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"

Comments

Re:Wow... this is the beginning of the end

[chris_mahan]

> But in the minds of many business types, if you pay nothing, it must be worth nothing.

If that is the case, why isn't every single computer on the planet an IBM?

Oh. Wait. Maybe there is such a thing as Do-It-Yourselfers who prefer a FOSS + "elbow grease" approach.

Let me see... Can you say GOOG?

In any case, I see projects moving off mySQL and onto Postgres, or at least adding postgres support. I also see projects adding or using sqlite as an alternative to mySQL.