eWeek is one of many sites carrying a story on HP's plans to "certify, support and jointly sell MySQL AB's open-source database and JBoss' applications server on its server hardware".
"We'll be the first and only vendor to offer an integrated, certified, supported solution on an operating system stack. HP is the only solutions vendor who can do it, because the other vendor has a vested interest in selling their own software," Rovira said, referring to Microsoft as the "other vendor."
The HP announcement comes as another notch in the belt for MySQL, which is fast becoming the open-source database darling of the corporate world. Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL, of Uppsala, Sweden, said that HP's move shows that there's a "big brother in IT to support and service a complete open-source stack."
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