It's Official: The Future of Sun/MySQL is Open... And Closed

May 07, 2008, 12:45 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Matt Asay)

"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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