Oracle scraps cheap MySQL subscriptions
Summary: Oracle has stopped offering the cheapest subscription levels for the MySQL database that it picked up when it bought Sun Microsystems.According to Oracle's latest price list, the low-cost $600 annual fee that Sun had offered to small companies is now no more.
Oracle has stopped offering the cheapest subscription levels for the MySQL database that it picked up when it bought Sun Microsystems.
According to Oracle's latest price list, the low-cost $600 annual fee that Sun had offered to small companies is now no more. Subscriptions now start at $2,000 per annum.
The company has also started offering high-end 'carrier-grade' subscriptions, starting at $10,000 per annum for 1-4-socket servers.
Fears have been expressed for the future of the open-source MySQL since database specialist Oracle announced it was to buy Sun last year.
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