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The next version of MySQL Enterprise Edition may include paid-only features:

It’s emerged Sun may release extra data back-up features in the Enterprise Edition of the next version of MySQL, due in Q4, to paying enterprise subscribers only.

Apparently, some people think the end times are nigh:

I used to be one of MySQL’s vociferous defenders, arguing that speed, ease of use, quality of documentation, and the size of the community made up for its limitations relative to PostgreSQL. But this is pretty much the end. Sun is clearly determined to destroy whatever’s good about it.

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