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I approached this article thinking about how evil oracle is. But I left it hoping oracle does this well. They had a good point about no price increases in the l
by sammcd 16y ago
I approached this article thinking about how evil oracle is. But I left it hoping oracle does this well. They had a good point about no price increases in the last 6 years.
I'm not a fan of monetizing software through support, but I would love see some people hitting it big and proving me wrong.
- nkassis 16y agowell, it all depends on how much they expect to charge, even half of an Oracle Enterprise license would be a HUGE increase for MySQL users.
- metageek 16y agoIf they haven't raised prices in 6 years, that probably means that they thought customers would switch to Oracle if they did. MySQL didn't want that to happen; Oracle probably does.
- kjksf 16y agoIt's a highly misleading statement. Oracle didn't own MySQL for 6 years so they couldn't have raised MySQL prices even if they wanted to. What it really means is that MySQL price was the same for past 6 years, when it was owned by MySQL, AB and then Sun, but as soon as ink dried on Sun acquisition, the first thing that Oracle did was to rise the prices. Have they even released any new, improved version?