Re:Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories
by ghshephard on Monday March 25, 2013 @07:05PM
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It's still the case - we had a free license from Oracle for the first 3-4 years of our company's life - We just had an account manager call us ever 6-9 months, see how we were doing. Eventually we got some real customers, revenues, and negotiated a several million dollar license purchase + 18%/year maintenance.
Re:Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories
by praptak on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @06:47AM
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> Oracle allowed you to use Oracle RDBMS free for "prototype development" but once you were actually generating revenue from that you are supposed to buy the necessary licenses, even for continued development or support purposes.
Hm... I vaguely remember (but it was a really, really long time ago) you could use Oracle for as long as you wanted as long as you didn't process your own or your customers' business data.
* Last I checked, Oracle allowed you to use Oracle RDBMS free for "prototype development" but once you were actually generating revenue from that you are supposed to buy the necessary licenses, even for continued development or support purposes.