From: Ciro Iriarte (cyruspy_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 04:56:51 CEST
Message-ID: <a998a0140708061956g7dbfe3edg30bd936d0f753589@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:56:51 -0400 From: "Ciro Iriarte" <cyruspy@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: SLES9 and MySQL5
2007/8/6, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>:
> There's also "MySQL Enterprise"
> http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/enterprise.html
>
> Starts at 495USD/year.
>
> Oops, now you pay for two products that are supposed to be "free".
> ;-)
>
>
> This is a general problem with all sorts of software (on enterprise-
> distros)
>
> Running SLES (and RHEL) means cementing the API.
> Good for Oracle, SAP, Notes etc. where the OS is just a loader for
Yep, they are not subject of RPM dependency hell
> the "real stuff" - these guys barely need a filesystem.
> Bad for running OSS (not always, but more often than not, IMO).
>
> One can either:
> - switch to a different platform, where this problem does not exist
> (mainly FreeBSD), but other problems may (swap problems, if you want)
> - install a new server with the new version of the enterprise OS
> that contains all the things one wants
> - install the 3rd party apps directly from vendor-upstream, 3rd-
> party commercial support (MySQL, EnterpriseDB, Symas, Sernet-Samba -
> you name it)
> - use/create something like http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
>
>
> cheers,
> Rainer
> --
> Rainer Duffner
> CISSP, LPI, MCSE
> rainer@ultra-secure.de
Ciro
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