Re: php DBMS
| From: | Bret Hughes | Date: | Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:35:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php DBMS | ||
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On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 13:35, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Bret Hughes wrote:
> > Does MySQL cost money? I thought it was open source and available at no
> > cost.
>
> true its free, but you can also run a comcercial version which gives you
> indemnity and support and stuff.... Google for instance are known to run MySQL,
> companies like that like to have support contracts - at MySQL they are glad to oblige,
> just unlike some other very fairplaying non-antitrust type businesses they don't
> force feed you the license fee :-)
So if he is looking for a non licensed dbms MySQL would still work
albeit without formal support lie the rest of the open source world.
Bret