[thelist] Database Licensing Question

Richard Bennett richard.bennett at skynet.be
Tue Dec 21 12:25:49 CST 2004


On Tuesday 21 December 2004 17:27, Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
> >>:-) For someone on the windows platform i would say there is little
> >>
> >>reason to use mysql anymore.
> >
> >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.
>
> 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.

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...

Richard.


 


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