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Sun may shut off high-end MySQL features
- kschrader 19y agoHow do you shut off high end features? If there are enough hooks in the product to build them, then someone will add them into the core eventually.
- jrockway 19y agoThis is FUD. Yes, Sun will probably tell their paid developers to focus on features that will be pay-only initially... but so what? If Sun wants to play this way, they can. Someone can easily fork MySQL and only distribute their super-cool features under the GPL, forcing Sun to play catch-up. It won't be good for the community, but this is what happens when greed gets involved. (This is not a first, though. Google has their internal MySQL fixes, and plenty of companies are selling tweaked versions of Postgres. Both products are still quite useful despite that.)