Tom Lane wrote:
The other point I'd make against John's argument is that there are a whole lot of Fortune 500 companies buying Red Hat support, and RH is effectively a third party for large chunks of Linux. (Of course, there are also large chunks for which Red Hat employees write as much code as anyone
Yeah, I've heard that. :)
I think the real criterion for big companies is not so much whether you're supporting your "own" product as whether you're big enough to be worth suing if things go wrong.
I think you're right, and MySQL is unlikely to allow anybody else to get that big.
- John Burger MITRE
