From: Jim (jjzolx.com)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 11:45:16 CDT

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Can these be legally run without a license?

Is the only difference that MySQL AB doesn't publish links to the current
version on their web page, instead purposely choosing to leave the
community version several revisions behind?

Yeah, I'm a little confused.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Cole" <jeremyprovenscaling.com>
To: "Maurice Volaski" <mvolaskiaecom.yu.edu>
Cc: <mysqllists.mysql.com>; "Dan Nelson" <dnelsonallantgroup.com>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: The current version is 5.0.48, no?

> Hi Maurice,
>
> Yep, it's very very confusing these days. Unfortunately for all of us,
> MySQL's sales organization seems happy with the situation. Blame them.
>
> And, yes, you're correct, compared to MySQL Enterprise, 5.0.45 is indeed
> out of date now. The releases are sequential, but the community one is
> only released every so often. If you don't have a MySQL Enterprise
> login and you want to get the sources/binaries, you can get them from
> here (under the GPL):
>
> http://mirror.provenscaling.com/mysql/enterprise/
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy
>
> Maurice Volaski wrote:
>> Thank you for this info, but it just seems make a simple question a
>> matter of confusion.
>>
>> It tells us that MySQL is being marketed under two editions, but
>> nowhere
>> does it say that the current release of each is matched bugfix for
>> bugfix
>> and the version difference is just arithmetic.
>>
>> Since community's 5.0.45 came out a few months ago and enterprise's
>> 5.0.48
>> came out just a few weeks ago, and from the look of the release notes,
>> I want to believe that community version is indeed out of date.
>>
>>
>>> In the last episode (Sep 13), Maurice Volaski said:
>>>> I just learned that the current version of MySQL is 5.0.48,
>>>> described here
>>>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0.html and
>>>> available from
>>>> http://download.dorsalsource.org/files/b/5/165/mysql-5.0.48.tar.gz
>>> The current Mysql Enterprise version is 5.0.48. The current Mysql
>>> Community version is 5.0.45.
>>>
>>> Enterprise release notes:
>>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0.html
>>>
>>> Community release notes:
>>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs.html
>>>
>>> Comparison:
>>> http://www.mysql.com/products/which-edition.html
>>
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