“Marten Mickos sent me an update on MySQL’s exceptional 2007. It
makes interesting points about open source, generally, while
relaying important information about MySQL. Here are excerpts from
the message, with his permission:“In 2007 we continued to make free and open source software
available and affordable to all. MySQL version 5 was our top
download hit, expanding the universe of MySQL users further into
the Web2.0 and Enterprise2.0 markets. MySQL Proxy, experimentally
released in 2007, garnered the attention of scale-out experts
worldwide…”
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