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Is MySQL's Community Eating the Company?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-yer-drizzle-on dept.

mjasay writes "Craigslist's Jeremy Zawodny reviews the progress of MySQL as a project, and discovers that through third-party forks and enhancements like Drizzle and OurDelta 'you can get a "better" MySQL than the one Sun/MySQL gives you today. For free.' Is this a good thing? On one hand it demonstrates the strong community around MySQL, but on the other, it could make it harder for Sun to fund core development on MySQL by diverting potential revenue from the core database project. Is this the fate of successful open-source companies? To become so successful as a community that they can't eke out a return as a company? If so, could anyone blame MySQL/Sun for creating its own proprietary fork in order to afford further core development?"

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  1. Looking at the title... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MySQL's community is definitely eating the company. You can tell by the fact that SUN's blood is getting spilled into random databases, causing the icky red stuff to pollute random fields in internet databases. I hear it can cause a web page to suddenly start coloring otherwise normal headers in crimson.

    Nevermind, I just refreshed slashdot. Either I'm smoking something, or CmdrTaco is fucking around with me again. Cut it out! You're making my psychiatrist rich!

  2. Re:more of a sign they need to improve their proce by FictionPimp · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have apple. I enjoy apple products. They make products that work the way I would want products to work 90% of the time.

    It's that other 10% of the time I'm bitching a fit trying to hack around their limitations.

    But it's better then the 50% of the time with windows.