While my original comments are self serving, apparently Sun believes that it will make better business sense in the long term to keep these components open-source. Hopefully this is a vote of confidence for the quality . . . → Read More: MySQL and closed-source]]> Apparently someone at Sun agreed with my sentiments about moving to a more closed-source model for MySQL.

While my original comments are self serving, apparently Sun believes that it will make better business sense in the long term to keep these components open-source. Hopefully this is a vote of confidence for the quality of product the open-source model has helped MySQL create.