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Have you forgotten Red Had made an offer for a database company a few years ago and that company along with its 80 employees turned it down. Red Hat then went with PostgreSQL and a few months later there were 80 people and another database company gone bankrupt. Oracle offer a clone of Red Hat software and support for half the Red Hat price. Red Hat is and always has been a shrink wrap packaging company that employ a few people who improve one thing or another open source. MySQL has had a dual license since its inception. Sun and Netscape both got badly burned by MS and the results are fascinating -- Open Office and Fire Fox grew out of their for profit, now defunct products. Still, the price does seem high until one considers that Sun is the network and MySQL is the network database. It could be good for them and all of us as well.

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