[Info-vax] OpenVMS.org down

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/5/2011 7:51 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> Sidenote on MySQL: Apple have dropped MySQL from the server version of
> their latest release of OS X in favour of PostgreSQL.  I think the
> decision was probably to do with licensing and Oracle getting MySQL
> along with the rest of Sun.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/02/apple_dumps_mysql_from_mac_os_x_s
> erver/
>
> Despite what the article says, I've never had any trouble installing
> MySQL on OS X Clients, so this should not be a show stopper for someone
> already using MySQL on OS X Server.

Nothing has really changed. You can still get MySQL under GPL or
pay for a commercial license.

But Apple is of course free to not like Oracle, prefer BSD over GPL,
prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL.

Arne