On: Are Commercial Databases Worth It?

[arohner]

There are tens of thousands of organizations that disagree with you. I bet that most of them don't fork MySQL when they hit bugs (assuming they do hit bugs).

I'm not claiming that MySQL is perfect (or even good), only that many organizations think it's good enough, and are willing to take that risk.

[gaius → arohner]

No, they buy support from MySQL AB, which isn't cheap.