MySQL no Longer Provides Free Binaries
This is really sad, but it appears that MySQL will no longer provide free binaries for their Community branch.
From what I understand, the Community version will continue to be released as normal, and distributed under GPL, but MySQL will not provide binaries for download on their own site. Precompiled binaries should still be available in the form of packages from various linux vendors if they choose to include them in their package trees.
In other words nothing really changes for hosts of linux users out there (especially for apt and yum users who can rely on rich repositories to always contain the newest releases). On the other hand Windows users should be relatively upset about this because it means they will need to build from source each time a new version is released.
That is, unless someone takes it upon them to provide windows MySQL binaries to the masses and build some nice installers for them. I imagine that whoever manages to establish themselves as a trustworthy source can probably expect some good traffic and hence add revenue. I’m actually tempted to buy mysql4win.com - if nothing else, just to see if anyone really wants it. 
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December 30th, 2006 at 10:19 pm (2284) [Quote]
That domain might imply it’s for MySQL4, so perhaps getting MySQL5Win.com too would be a good idea
Bad news for Windows users… but who (in their right mind) uses Windows for a server anyway?
Posted usingDecember 30th, 2006 at 10:30 pm (2285) [Quote]
Or perhaps just mysqlforwindows.com
Granted, most people with Windows servers usually run some combination of IIS, SQLServer and ASP. My company runs Win 2k3, IIS, MySQL + PHP mostly because we were essentially told: here are the servers, now put a webb application on them. If installing linux would be a choice we would go with a complete LAMP installation, but since the machines were already running IIS we just decided to make it into a WIMP.
Posted usingDecember 31st, 2006 at 5:48 am (2287) [Quote]
My company also uses windows servers
Posted usingrunning IIS, SQL Server and ColdFusion
It also runs sotware for VoIP telephones, and i don’t know if that program is available under linux
December 31st, 2006 at 2:55 pm (2295) [Quote]
For the Solaris users . . . take a look at BlastWave. I have been using their MySQL for a few years with no issues. The maintainer is ussually right on top of releases.
Posted usingJanuary 1st, 2007 at 3:13 am (2300) [Quote]
Craig, thanks for the tip. I currently don’t maintain any Solaris machines (I work with one Sun machine but it’s JDS not Solaris), but that site is awesome. I’m bookmarking it for future use.
Posted usingJanuary 23rd, 2007 at 2:37 pm (2541) [Quote]
Scott of http://macvicar.net has Community binaries for Windows —
http://server.macvicar.net/downloads/
(you just drag and drop the Windows stuff, no installer or anything)
Webyog, creators of SQLyog, has compiled and made available the 5.0.33 Enterprise MySQL server for Windows (a .exe installer packaged in a zip file)
http://www.webyog.com/downloads/MySQLserver/mysql-5.0.33-win32.zip
Enjoy.
Posted usingJanuary 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm (2543) [Quote]
Thanks Sheeri! Good to know!
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