> >>They use BitKeeper - propietary scm tool
> >>Now mysql developers will move to subversion
> >>
> >
> >

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,102216,00.html

> >
> >>What BitMover Got Wrong?
> >>http://better-scm.berlios.de/bk/what-bitmover-got-wrong.html
> >
> >
> > BitMover hardly did anything wrong, IMO.
> At first was OK , but they didn't liked competition
> from open source (someone from kernel team was working on one tool)
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/4966
> Irony is there was no reverse engineering: telnet was used
> and only help system
>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/21/1517244&from=rss
>
>
> . So that is the problem with proprietary tools : lock-in
> and lost time converting to other more open (OSS)
> ones

What about not being able to pay for lots and lots of usage of
the open source projects?

From what I read, BitMover was paying $$$ to keep those open
source projects running.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, Oracle & MS SQL
Server
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com