On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:57 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
> http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/17/when-are-you-required-to-have-a-commercial-mysql-license/
>
> From the article: "You need a commercial license if you want to embed
> MySQL within your non-Free program. Note that embed is not the same as
> “make a connection to.”"
Now that Oracle owns the MySQL license, a group of the main MySQL
developers have left Oracle to work on the Drizzle project, which is taking the
open source code from MySQL, cutting out a lot of the cruft that accumulated
through years of adding stuff to the basic engine, and coming up with a much
leaner database.
I mention this because this week Rackspace announced that we have hired
the Drizzle team to develop this project.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/development/rackspace-hires-refugees-from-mysql-offshoot-drizzle
( -or- http://j.mp/c67CTL )
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Meanwhile, Rackspace considers Drizzle to be "a database that will provide them
an infrastructure piece that will be modular and scalable enough to meet the
needs of their very diverse cloud customers," Pipes said.
MySQL itself has issues that can't be fixed "with simple hacks and
workarounds," he added. In addition, Rackspace is using the Cassandra storage
framework, and sees promise in integrating it with Drizzle, he said.
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It sure feels great to be part of a company that doesn't just take from
the Open Source world, but actively supports it.
-- Ed Leafe
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