On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:01, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:50, David Goodenough wrote: > > > 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." > > > > So, in a similar vein, which PostgreSQL support companies support > > Debian, for instance? > > I bet Credativ does. > > The good thing is that there are several companies supporting Postgres, > so whatever one of them does it does not affect the market as a whole. I was kinda thinking the same thing. Man, must suck to be tied to the one true company for your database when they stop supporting your OS etc... And what about MySQL windows flavor?
