When the Clue Meets the Road
Looks like I'm not the only one who's figure out that Jonathan Schwartz must have lost control of his senses when he decided to buy MySQL for $1B USD - even Schwartz has sobered up enough to realize that actual revenue has to come from somewhere, and services around the database won't be enough. The solution? Cool new features will not be open source:
In the future cool new features of mySQL (like online backup) will, when written by Sun, first go only to paying customers.
The Open Source community is up in arms, but what did they expect? After Sun stupidly spent that huge wad of cash, someone has to pay the bills.
This is a twofer for Schwartz: he's managed to throw away a full billion dollars, and - when he finally had his very own "wtf" moment, he managed to create a rather large pile of negative PR. Maybe Sun needs to bring back McNealy.
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Comments
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[Baron Twelve] April 25, 2008 1:26:58.914
Sun made no such decision - MySQL's exec team aired out an idea to make some modules available only to paying customers. What the hell is wrong with that, it's exactly what RedHat, Novell and Google do. You must be new to the community... you'd probably be better off asking for insights vs. spouting off, youll just keep embarassing yourself.
Hmm
[ James Robertson] April 25, 2008 6:11:59.880
Comment by James Robertson
Funny how they "aired out" the idea after Sun spent $1B on the product.
[Tom Sattler] April 25, 2008 8:37:53.195
Note here that Cincom walks the walk ... The entire Visual Works product is available for NC downloaders. There is no difference between the commercial and non-commercial versions. Listening to that, Sun?
[Tom Sattler] April 25, 2008 8:39:12.706
Note here that Cincom walks the walk ... There is no difference between the Commercial and Non-Commercial versions of Visual Works. Are you listening, Sun?