Re: LGPL vs. GPL

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I agree with you, I am in almost the same case, with the difference that have already spent a few monts porting my apps to SapDB...

As you stated, the bussiness model for SapDB has changed, and doesn't include us -midrange commercial developers- anymore.

¿¿¿WHY DON'T MAKE MONEY FROM SUPPORT INSTEAD OF  LICENSES??? The company which needs support will happily buy it.

I'd be HAPPY to pay Sap for support where needed. But I'm not going to pay licenses to MySQL AB nor I'm going to make my customers to do so. Noone was fired for using a Sap product, but you can bet there're plenty of IT decission-makers fired for deploying MySQL.

I'm currently evaluating what to do with my current development arena, but you can be sure I won't use a DataBase which MySQL branding, one which I have to pay for. No way, never, if I have to, I'll leave the SapDB environment and will join the rest of the world (start using Oracle)

We (the small-and-medium commercial developers) are not going to tie ourselves to an opensource database for which we cannot make commercial software without paying. With that scenario , I'll use PostgreSQL or FireBird for small customers who can't pay, and Oracle, Sybase (yuck!) or even MS-SQL for those who can.

Tim Nelson escribió

I have been reading through the posts in the last few days in regards to the MySAPDB

"rebranding".  I am in a different position than most since I am not running SAPDB

yet, but I have been investigating (for about a year) the prospects of porting

my Informix/ESQL applications to SAPDB.  The main draw to SAPDB

was it's ESQL support and LGPL.  For those in mid-range "vertical" markets know

that there customer's are extremely price sensitive and moving to a traditional

DB like Oracle, MSSQL, etc would be cost prohibitive.  Informix SE is attractively

priced, but will become an orphaned step-child in the future as a result of the

IBM Informix buyout.

 

I was just ready to lean on the management to give me the resources to begin

the port to SAPDB. Now, unless the client libs (ESQL included) are free, I can't see

how I can convince management to bite.

 

Just my 2 cents, but I don't see what will make MySAPDB gain a larger share of the

DB market by changing it's licensing structure.  We use Red Hat in some of our products under

GPL and the money they are making from us is the support NOT the licensing arena.

As a small development group we can't afford OS heavyweights on staff and the

same is true of Informix, we pay them a pretty penny for support.  I HAD envisioned

using SAPDB support in the same manner, however it's clear the business model

for SAPDB has changed...

 

Tim Nelson