Curiouser and curiouser....
IBM today announced a technology and marketing partnership that will have IBM selling MySQL's database, among other things:
The agreement calls for IBM and MySQL to develop software that will make MySQL compatible with programs that run IBM's System i line of business computers, including IBM's i5 operating system DB2 database. IBM will also sell MySQL's service products.Just when I thought IBM was getting stodgy and provincial in its views on open source, it does something like this. This is news because:
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IBM's DB2 competes with MySQL, and
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MySQL is GPL (though dual-licensed under commercial terms), and IBM has tended to be somewhat Apache-centric, its Linux (and Eclipse - yes, I know that IBM does more than BSD-style licensing) …