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by tj on February 25, 2004
Wired highlights how to reap profits from open source citing MySQL.
"To make money, MySQL adopted what Urlocker calls a dual-license model. Under this scheme, users can get the product for free if they agree to abide by a standard open-source license and make changes to the software available to other developers.
Customers who don't want to share their code can buy a commercial license for about $500 per database server. This price, McKendrick notes, compares with a cost of several thousand dollars per server that companies typically pay the major commercial vendors.
Currently, the company has about 4,000 paying customers, who brought in more than $10 million in sales in 2003. "
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