The Sun faithful who attended the CommunityOne Conference this morning may not have noticed, but Sun and its MySQL executives were very clear about Sun’s open-source strategy going forward, despite news reports that seem to have missed the nuances:

The core will always be 100 percent open source. The periphery…will not. Or might not. It depends.

In response to my first question of the CommunityOne panel Marten Mickos, Senior Vice President of Sun’s Database Group, declared, “I just want to state that the core of MySQL will always be 100 percent free and open source.” The crowd loved it. Ian Murdock said roughly the same thing: The core will be open….

The periphery? Marten indicated that this would be subject to a corporate calculus designed to determine how much peripheral, shut extensions the company can make to encourage buys without alienating its community.

Sun’s future (and according to some, all of our futures) is hybrid. Is this a bad thing?

… Source:The Open Road

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