SCO Partners With MySQL AB
As part of the agreement, the companies will work together on a range of joint marketing, sales, training, business development and support programs that will benefit customers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia." The PR has dropped SCO's usual "owner of the Unix operating system" line as well.
Posted Sep 2, 2005 14:31 UTC (Fri)
by freemars (subscriber, #4235)
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Posted Sep 2, 2005 14:52 UTC (Fri)
by elanthis (guest, #6227)
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Posted Sep 2, 2005 21:07 UTC (Fri)
by jd (guest, #26381)
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Posted Sep 5, 2005 7:26 UTC (Mon)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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:-) :-) :-)
Cheers,
Posted Sep 2, 2005 15:51 UTC (Fri)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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I think MySQL AB's execs have some serious questions to answer. If they're getting immediate cash out of the deal, where is it coming from? SCO's own cash is all tied up with the lawyers. Is this just a case of impossibly clueless and out-of-touch business managers who have no idea what they're stepping into? Surely somebody there knows that "partnering" with SCO today is an easy way to find a summons on one's desk tomorrow. Or, did MySQL hire in an executive who owed somebody still at SCO a favor? This just doesn't parse, and we need a good explanation from the founders -- and maybe an apology.
Posted Sep 2, 2005 16:27 UTC (Fri)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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Besides, it will be an easy matter to transition companies that have their business databases in MySQL on SCO, to MySQL on GNU/Linux, and maybe MySQL AB will put themselves in a good position with the customers to collect money to help them make that transition.
Posted Sep 2, 2005 17:36 UTC (Fri)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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SCO's receivers are likely to depend on that same strategy. One may hope the "partnership" contract will free MySQL from any business-interference restrictions at the point when SCO finally declares.
Maybe MySQL are also getting a list of contacts for SCO's lately former customers, who ought to be fair game. Might SCO even have picked up some cash for that?
Anyway, it would be interesting to learn what MySQL is really up to.
Posted Sep 2, 2005 23:19 UTC (Fri)
by cventers (guest, #31465)
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Posted Sep 3, 2005 21:35 UTC (Sat)
by mcm (guest, #31917)
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Nothing could be further from the truth. MySQL AB holds the copyright to their work and by publishing it under the GPL they give you a license to use their work in any way that license permits.
If SCO can somehow manage to get a court to consider the GPL invalid, then they have no legal right whatsoever to do _anything_ with the code: they may not use it, redistribute it, etc. -- just as with any other copyrighted work.
Posted Sep 8, 2005 3:27 UTC (Thu)
by pjhacnau (subscriber, #4223)
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to jointly deliver a certified,
I suspect it's using the non-GPL license.
PJH
Posted Sep 8, 2005 3:23 UTC (Thu)
by dmallery (guest, #635)
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dave
Would it be more accurate to say "SCO buys MySQL license"?SCO Partners With MySQL AB ?
Sort of. MySQL AB will also be doing a little bit of work, mostly (I believe) testing and documenting OpenServer compatibility and stability with MySQL. Possibly also listing SCO along with their other "partners" on their web page.SCO Partners With MySQL AB ?
No, I think it would be more accurate to say "SCO watches Australian Rules SCO Partners With MySQL AB ?
Football and decides stealing the code would be much too painful."
Is that Rugby Union or Rugby League?SCO Partners With MySQL AB ?
Wol
This is a pretty transparent attempt by SCO to pretend to be a legitimate business (once again), and MySQL is playing right into it. It seems terribly irresponsible, on MySQL's part. It's not as if it makes much strategic business sense -- SCO's customer-base half-life seems to be about six months.
React?
There's still a significant installed base of SCO in some industries,
particularly retail/point-of-sale systems. MySQL isn't that big a company, they aren't in a position to turn away business.
React?
So, the strategy is to wait until SCO's little feet are in the air, and then throw its erstwhile customers (of whom MySQL now have a list!) a lifeline? Offering to help migrate them before the bankruptcy seems legally hazardous, under the circumstances.
React?
I get that MySQL isn't in a position to arbitrarily turn away business, SCO Partners With MySQL AB
but why would they choose to 'partner' with a company that has made an
attempt to legally declare the GPL unenforceable in such a manner that
their distribution of Linux doesn't constitute infringement? If SCO won
such a claim, they could do whatever they wanted with the MySQL source
code and software...
> If SCO wonSCO Partners With MySQL AB
> such a claim, they could do whatever they wanted with the MySQL source
> code and software...
Last time I checked, MySQL was dual licensed; you could use it GPL'ed for free, or pay for a different licesne. Given the following from the release:SCO Partners With MySQL AB
commercial version of the popular MySQL database
lie down with pigsSCO Partners With MySQL AB
and you get up with pigs.