[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“In a recent Slashdot story, a disgruntled Debian developer
posted that ‘MySQL [has] quietly deprecated support for most Linux
distributions on October 16, when its ‘MySQL Network’ support plan
was replaced by ‘MySQL Enterprise.’ MySQL now supports only two
Linux distributions–Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server.’“He went on to say that, ‘We learned of this when MySQL declined
to sell us support for some new Debian-based servers. Our sales rep
‘found out from engineering that the current Enterprise offering is
no longer supported on Debian OS.’“Linux-Watch has learned, however, that is not the case…”