There’s quite a bit of buzz on the blogosphere from people I respect a great deal, like Jeremy Cole at Proven Scaling and Vadim at Percona, about MySQL’s new Enterprise backup plans.
The big deal? They’re releasing a Community version that doesn’t have all the same features as the Enterprise version of Online Backup, including compression and encryption. The Community version is open-sourced under GPL, the Enterprise version is not.
Personally, I think this is awesome. Don’t get me wrong – I love open source. We couldn’t have built our business without it, and we love it when we get a chance to contribute back to the community.
But …
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