Infrastructure management company dbaDirect, in a move similar to Oracle’s play to intercept Red Hat’s enterprise support for its own distribution of Linux, is now supporting the MySQL open source database with dbaDirect’s usual enterprise services that include on-demand technical expertise, patches and upgrades.
While Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux announcement last year was no surprise and consistent with the company’s history and strategy, the dbaDirect MySQL offering is more on the level of the larger industry (meaning not just companies that throw around a few billion in acquisitions and extensions each year).
With dbaDirect, we now have a mid-sized, typical enterprise IT services company (3,000 corporate databases managed) basing strategy on the …
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