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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:08:27 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> Marketing.  Remember that MySQL AB have a strong financial incentive
> to make organized efforts to locate and publicize impressive-sounding
> users of MySQL. (I've heard rumors they even give licensing discounts
> to companies that will let their names be used like that.)

That's fairly standard practice. We have actually had customers try and
negotiate that with us. "If you give us a discount you can use our name
in xyz...". Of course, we don't :) but then again that's why you don't
see our name attached to large rollouts (even though you can see large
rollouts attached to us.)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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