[thelist] Database Licensing Question

[Raditha Dissanayake]

Richard Bennett wrote:

>On Tuesday 21 December 2004 17:27, Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
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>>>>:-) For someone on the windows platform i would say there is little
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>>>>reason to use mysql anymore.
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>>>Well... scalability would be one... MSDE is restricted to 2GB database
>>>size, and 5 concurent users... and when you need to scale to MSSQL your
>>>licenses go through the roof.
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>>I am largely in agreement with your entire post except for this point.
>>Though mysql databases can be > 2GB their license fees ( at least
>>according to their own interpretation of the GPL) aren't cheap.
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>If its for a small project mSQL will do fine (and for many larger ones too) 
>without requiring any license to be paid, and AFAIK MySQL is only a one-time 
>payment of $250 per database , with unlimited users and processors... doesn't 
>seem all that unreasonable to me...
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My understanding was this is $250 per installation. If that is incorrect 
i stand corrected.

>Richard.
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