MySQL to launch new features only in MySQL Enterprise
Found on Jcole's Weblog on Wednesday, 16 April 2008
MySQL will start offering some features (specifically ones related to online backups) only in MySQL Enterprise.
The user base for MySQL Enterprise is much smaller than for MySQL Community. That means these critical features will be tested by only a few of their customers. So, in effect, they will be giving their paying customers real, true, untested code.
They will indeed develop new features in MySQL Enterprise (in 6.0), without making them available in MySQL Community.
While you can easily increase your userbase by open-sourcing your spplications, the other way won't work that well. Well, I guess it's about time to take a closer look at PostgreSQL.