{"id":465,"date":"2005-09-05T11:06:01","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T01:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2005-09-05T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T01:06:01","slug":"naturally-it-was-going-to-hit-slashdot-with-something-like-mysql-and-sco-join-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/05\/naturally-it-was-going-to-hit-slashdot-with-something-like-mysql-and-sco-join-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturally, it was going to hit Slashdot with something like “MySQL and SCO Join Forces”"},"content":{"rendered":"

(insert disclaimer about this being my own views – no that of MySQL AB<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Slashdot | MySQL and SCO Join Forces<\/a><\/p>\n

Some people seem to think that porting your application to a newer version of an OS, having a trial version of your subscribtion-based support shipping with every copy of that OS and access through that OS vendors reseller channel is a bad thing.<\/p>\n

Granted, a lot of people think that certain actions of said OS vendor are just plain retarded. Myself included – it would be much better if they actually focused on products. That being said, there’s more than one OS vendor that does just plain dumb stuff – or, to use the more emotive “evil” word.<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s part of the \/. crowd that seem to think we must be evil for porting to a SCO platform – but by their silence (and sometimes “screw you guys, I’m going to X RDBMS”) it must be okay for others to do it (note that X RDBMS already supports SCO platforms)?<\/p>\n

Besides, anybody who’s really used MySQL will know how easy it is to move your database from one platform to another – really empowering you to make sure you OS vendor gives you the best deal possible – because you can easily move to where the grass is greener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(insert disclaimer about this being my own views – no that of MySQL AB) Slashdot | MySQL and SCO Join Forces Some people seem to think that porting your application to a newer version of an OS, having a trial … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-7v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":748,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/21\/slashdot-mysql-ceo-marten-mickos-answers-your-questions\/","url_meta":{"origin":465,"position":0},"title":"Slashdot | MySQL CEO M\u00c3\u00a5rten Mickos Answers Your Questions","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-10-21","format":false,"excerpt":"Slashdot | MySQL CEO M\u00c3\u00a5rten Mickos Answers Your Questions I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've been mentioned by name in the 1st commet to a \/. article. 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