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Re:Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL by quesera on Sunday September 02, 2012 @04:56PM (#4468076)
In the enterprise hardware world, I don't know any vendor who will offer an answer other than "call your sales rep" to a customer who didn't buy a service contract.
Re:Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL by mbreese on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @05:36AM (#4478624)
It was a charity donation (by Oracle) of hardware and services, and the service contract wasn't part of the donation. The initial donation was laudable, but the hardware was weak. Needless to say, the 3 dead servers were not replaced.