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Installing MySQL On Linux

MySQL is a really popular, Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS), from the open source domain. It is used extensively by communities that wish to establish a dynamic web presence.

MySQL was created by a company owned by two Swedes, David Axmark and Allan Larsson and a Finn named Michael Monty Widenius who worked together since the 1980’s in Sweden. They pride themselves in being a truly, second generation, open source company. With MySQL they have a dual licensing policy that helps support open source values while being a profitable, sustainable business.

All software that wishes to participate in the Open Source game plan must abide by the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL dictates that all software, (in this case MySQL) can be used at no cost and that its source code is also made available under GPL.

This also means that if MySQL code is required for the application to function or if MySQL is distributed along with the software application, the application’s source code must be also made available at no cost.

Some of the world’s largest organizations Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, The Associated Press, NASA and Suzuki have obtained significant cost savings by using MySQL to power their Web sites and business critical enterprise applications and packaged software.

Because many commercial organizations use this product, MySQL chose to privately license the software. This permits the commercial application using MySQL as their Db engine of choice, to keep their application source code private. Private licenses can be acquired on a per database server basis, starting at $200 for a single unit (or less, if there are a huge number of users).

MySQL works in perfect harmony with PHP, Perl, Python and Pascal and a host of other languages. If any ANSI SQL / DBMS technical skills exist in the organization of adoption, these can be leveraged on when using MySQL, to ensure that MySQL does whatever is required of it.

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