NewsForge: What MySQL Enterprise Means for Customers, Contributors

“Yet another company is moving toward an enterprise/open source
split. Last week MySQL AB announced that it would offer two
distinct versions of MySQL: the MySQL Enterprise release for paying
customers, and MySQL Community Server for open source users. What
does that mean for the open source community?

“Kaj Arnö, MySQL’s vice president of open source community
relations, explained the idea behind the split on his blog.
According to Arnö, the company will do more frequent binary
releases of the MySQL Enterprise codebase for the Enterprise
customers only…”

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