[nflug] FW: [GENERAL] MySQL drops support for most distributions

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 21:54 -0500, Robert Wolfe wrote:
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> From: pgsql-general-owner at postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner at postgresql.org] On Behalf Of David Goodenough
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:51 AM
> To: pgsql-general at postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] MySQL drops support for most distributions
> 
> 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."
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Follow the link to the slashdot article - it's been updated.  Looks like
there was some mis-communication.

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                                                Ken Smith
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