Hi!
The presenter said like that, wikipedia is customer of
MySQL AB.
In a way.
I ask him that, does wikipedia purchase MySQL
enterprise edition?
He said, he think that wikipedia purchase MySQL enterprise edition for
some servers, may be not for the whole sites.
Well, we had Enterprise subscription, which was a freebie. We may
actually have it now, if someone is not lazy to set it up again :)
Actually, we had Enterprise subscription before the actual split of
Enterprise/Community binaries - and 4.0 was in active support back then.
Does wikimedia purchase any supports from MySQL AB?
It is slightly more complicated than that. One of wikimedia volunteer
engineers got hired by MySQL, and since then he is continuing the
work with wikimedia stuff.
Though he is not paid to work on wikimedia stuff (and does full time
support engineer job), and there's no direct relationship between two
organizations, still, in the end Wikimedia gets some mysql skillset,
and MySQL AB gets experience of running medium-sized sites - and
everyone is happy.
In the end, wikimedia did not purchase the support, but actually kind
of gets it in slightly different form (oh, and MySQL end up bragging
from time to time).
Oh, and if you consider getting MySQL Enterprise subscription, go for
it, it is the bestest thing in industry! :)
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Domas Mituzas --
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