Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:20 -0500, John D. Burger wrote: >> Surely there are also third-party companies that provide "support" >> for MySqueal in some similar sense? Yeah. HP for example [links below]. HP announced support for Debian and MySQL (and the JBoss Stack as well). > Of course :) but... Fortune 2500+ for the most part will *not* use a > third party for support for something like MySQL. You've got to be kidding. Surely many Fortune 2500+ would prefer their MySQL support from HP than from a little company like MySQL-AB, wouldn't they? http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/442408-0-0-225-121.html http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/390925-0-0-0-121.html