Amazon RDS out to eat open source vendor lunches with MySQL

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 10/30/2009 - 10:08

InfoWorld: "One way for open source vendors to respond is through proprietary features. News that Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides a MySQL 5.1 relational database in the cloud has met with a lot of interest.

On the surface, this is good news for open source users and proponents."


 

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