Comments on: Competition and Open Source http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/02/05/competition-and-open-source/ Personal thoughts, business, economics, politics Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Baron http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/02/05/competition-and-open-source/#comment-177 Baron Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:59:03 +0000 http://peterzaitsev.com/?p=27#comment-177 Kostja, were you referring to my post here? http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/01/08/restoring-from-a-mysqldump-into-tables-with-triggers/ That was a careless mistake, not a publicity stunt. Kostja, were you referring to my post here?

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/01/08/restoring-from-a-mysqldump-into-tables-with-triggers/

That was a careless mistake, not a publicity stunt.

]]> By: admin http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/02/05/competition-and-open-source/#comment-54 admin Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:58:59 +0000 http://peterzaitsev.com/?p=27#comment-54 Kostja, At Percona our goal is fair information about the products we evaluate. Sometimes we may be over optimistic sometime over pessimistic. It is true though we often bring up problems to the public, mainly because Marketing Forces often try to spin things in too positive way. Kostja,

At Percona our goal is fair information about the products we evaluate. Sometimes we may be over optimistic sometime over pessimistic.

It is true though we often bring up problems to the public, mainly because Marketing Forces often try to spin things in too positive way.

]]> By: kostja http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/02/05/competition-and-open-source/#comment-48 kostja Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:48:38 +0000 http://peterzaitsev.com/?p=27#comment-48 Being part of MySQL development team, I can sign under this post. However, I think you got the criticism of Percona a bit wrong. It's completely okay to have an ecosystem around an open source product, and have many competing offerings on the market. But it's not okay to get cheap publicity whenever your partner in the ecosystem stumbles -- and I think Percona was doing something close to that with speculation on 5.1 release and blogging about bugs that in the end turned out to be non-repeatable after all. Being part of MySQL development team, I can sign under this post. However, I think you got the criticism of Percona a bit wrong. It’s completely okay to have an ecosystem around an open source product, and have many competing offerings on the market. But it’s not okay to get cheap publicity whenever your partner in the ecosystem stumbles — and I think Percona was doing something close to that with speculation on 5.1 release and blogging about bugs that in the end turned out to be non-repeatable after all.

]]> By: admin http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/02/05/competition-and-open-source/#comment-20 admin Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:30:55 +0000 http://peterzaitsev.com/?p=27#comment-20 I guess this is going to remain rule of the game. MySQL wants to control quality etc of their product release and this is unlikely going to change. I think RedHat model is nice in this respect - they allow community to innovate and experiment with Fedora and when take what works to Enterprise Linux. Though the distribution is different from single core application and also "right sign off" requirement is hard. Drizzle which is purely GPL based is best in this regard though it is a good question how Sun will be able to commercialize it. I guess this is going to remain rule of the game. MySQL wants to control quality etc of their product release and this is unlikely going to change.

I think RedHat model is nice in this respect – they allow community to innovate and experiment with Fedora and when take what works to Enterprise Linux. Though the distribution is different from single core application and also “right sign off” requirement is hard.

Drizzle which is purely GPL based is best in this regard though it is a good question how Sun will be able to commercialize it.

]]> By: Ernesto Vargas http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/02/05/competition-and-open-source/#comment-19 Ernesto Vargas Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:51:40 +0000 http://peterzaitsev.com/?p=27#comment-19 It will be very unfair if MySQL takes Percona/Google patches, merge it back to the main product and start collection from their enterprise clients, but not allowing Percona, Google and the community to collaborate back, no write access to version control. It will be very unfair if MySQL takes Percona/Google patches, merge it back to the main product and start collection from their enterprise clients, but not allowing Percona, Google and the community to collaborate back, no write access to version control.

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