Re: MySQL drops support for most distributions

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:20 -0500, John D. Burger wrote:
>> Surely there are also third-party companies that provide "support"
>> for MySqueal in some similar sense?

Yeah.  HP for example [links below].  HP announced support
for Debian and MySQL (and the JBoss Stack as well).

> Of course :) but... Fortune 2500+ for the most part will *not* use a
> third party for support for something like MySQL.

You've got to be kidding.

Surely many Fortune 2500+ would prefer their MySQL support
from HP than from a little company like MySQL-AB, wouldn't
they?





http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/442408-0-0-225-121.html
http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/390925-0-0-0-121.html