The pursuit of (MySQL) openness

The MySQL DBMS community and enterprise binaries will now be released on the same schedule, according to this Sun blog by Giuseppe Maxia. "We kept going, and we kept pushing, until we got the announcement at the MySQL Conference 2009, stating the end of the binary split. Now the community server binaries will be published as often as the enterprise ones. The rationale of this request is that the strength of MySQl is in its wide community. We claim that the MySQL server is tested by millions of users, and yet we were giving the GA (mature) binaries only to a handful of customers. This looked like a privilege, but it was in fact, from an engineering standpoint, a disadvantage. As a customer, I would gladly adopt a software that has been installed by a few million people, rather than being the privileged first one to try it in production." This minor revision note sums up the change: "Merge community up to enterprise, thus ending the community-server adventure." (Thanks to Bart Cortooms).

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