MSU has a deal with Oracle. Since last year, MSU has a varsity license 
with Oracle and now is very cheap to get it.





Ramon Hernandez wrote:
> Probably a good thing MSU cut a deal with Oracle.
> --Ray
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Laurence Bates <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>     Having spent a frustrating afternoon trying to install XAMPP v1.7
>     I checked into the source of the problem.  In doing so, I noticed
>     the following URL's which appear to cast doubt on the coding
>     techniques used in some of the most important open source code
>     that we rely on.
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>     http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/11/oops-we-did-it-again-mysql-51-released.html
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>     http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=36149
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>     I particularly like the last comment of the second URL: - "*btw: What was the reason for not patching (MySQL) 5.x branches?* "  All the more so since the comment is only two days old and both Sun and MySQL.com are touting MySQL 5.1 as the best thing since sliced bread  – see below.
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Oscar Castaneda
Michigan State University