Re: MySQL drops support for most distributions

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
Cc: David Goodenough <david(dot)goodenough(at)btconnect(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MySQL drops support for most distributions
Date: 2006-12-13 18:01:34
Message-ID: 20061213180134.GD16739@alvh.no-ip.org
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:50, David Goodenough wrote:
> > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/13/1515217&from=rss
> >
> > "MySQL quietly deprecated support for most Linux distributions on October 16,
> > when its 'MySQL Network' support plan was replaced by 'MySQL Enterprise.'
> > MySQL now supports only two Linux distributions — Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> > and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We learned of this when MySQL declined to
> > sell us support for some new Debian-based servers. Our sales rep 'found out
> > from engineering that the current Enterprise offering is no longer supported
> > on Debian OS.' We were told that 'Generic Linux' in MySQL's list of supported
> > platforms means 'generic versions of the implementations listed above'; not
> > support for Linux in general."
>
> So, in a similar vein, which PostgreSQL support companies support
> Debian, for instance?

I bet Credativ does.

The good thing is that there are several companies supporting Postgres,
so whatever one of them does it does not affect the market as a whole.

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