Amazon RDS out to eat open source vendor lunches with MySQL

"At this point, it's helpful to stop treating RDS as a competitive action against Sun/MySQL. The rest of this post could apply equally to another open source project, the related open-core or dual-licensed product and the related open source vendor. I fully expect to see Amazon continue to offer open source middleware components; RDS is the first step. I only mention Sun/MySQL below to help explain my thinking, not to draw any conclusions to its current or future market position."

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