Database Pricing · This marketing move is why the Sun/MySQL deal made sense; it’s all about marketing and selling. Frankly, in most respects, a technology comparison of MySQL and any old commercial database package is kind of boring; which makes pricing and delivery really important. John Clingan highlights this nicely in Save big bucks with GlassFish & MySQL Unlimited. He includes an obvious link to the Oracle pricing news, but I think Bryan Cantrill’s four-year-old The Economics of Software is relevant, too.
