Re: MySQL Enterprise - Community split

news.postgresql.org wrote:
> Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
>> I hope that this list is OK for rumors/information about competitor
>> moves.
>>
>> http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/12/29/where-to-get-recent-mysql-version/
>>
>>
>> It may be old news for others, but at least I didn't know about the
>> "Recent Policies" at MySQL.
>
> I am in contact with mysql ab community department to get some
> clarifications. If you look at the initial announcement from Kaj, it
> never discusses anything in the direction of not providing binaries
> anymore. In the past MySQL AB was always very keen to get OSS users to
> use their binaries to make bug handling easier. Also Windows users (the
> bulk of LAMP development is done on WAMP) obviously need those binaries.
> So this is a big issue indeed.

Ok, the situation is that they are only doing new binaries for the
community stuff 4-6 times a year. So there is just a delay with new
binaries that will likely result in skipping versions from the
Enterprise tree.

regards,
Lukas