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It’s Official: The Future of Sun/MySQL is Open… And Closed

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Matt Asay
May 7, 2008

“The Sun faithful who attended the CommunityOne Conference this
morning may not have noticed, but Sun and its MySQL executives were
very clear about Sun’s open-source strategy going forward, despite
news reports that seem to have missed the nuances:

“The core will always be 100 percent open
source. The periphery… will not. Or might not.
It depends…”

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