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Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL?

Posted by timothy on from the so-long-as-it's-internet-scale dept.

littlekorea writes "The world's largest web-scale users of MySQL have committed to one further upgrade to the Oracle-controlled database — but Facebook and Twitter are also eyeing off more open options from MariaDB and cheaper options from the NoSQL community. Who will pay for MySQL enterprise licenses into the future?"

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  1. License by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    MySQL have an real open source license, the GPL.

    Postgres does not have any real open source license. Their license is not OSI-approved nor FSF-approved.

    They have some custom vanity license of their own.