We are talking of financial moves here.
I think nothing will be touched at least for first years, I don't see
product or services overlapping.
Oracle is one thing, MySQL another.
If they are so crazy to 'shut-down' MySQL, the second after there would
be the fork,
MySQL could be 'closed', but the community is and will always be open.
I, myself, I would stop using MySQL immediately and switch to drizzle or
any other fork, or any other open project.
Cheers
Claudio
Eric Bergen wrote:
I don't think the purchase was about MySQL at all. I'm sure Oracle is
far more interested in java, zfs, and solaris than they are MySQL.
MySQL is just an added bonus that will go well with their acquisition
of Innobase Oy a few years ago. Oracle didn't kill InnoDB and it's not
very likely that they will kill MySQL. If you walk around the user
conference this week you will see why it would be incredibly stupid
try to try kill MySQL. Not that companies like Percona would let that
happen anyway. After all it is GPL.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM,
<michael.coll-ba...@verizonwireless.com> wrote:
From: Peter Brawley [mailto:peter.braw...@earthlink.net]
An optimist wrote that. A pessimist, Larry Dignan at
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598&tag=nl.e539, wrote point six:
"Oracle gets to kill MySQL. There's no way Ellison will let that
open source database mess with the margins of his database.
MySQL at best will wither from neglect. In any case, MySQL
is MyToast."
We ought to know who's right within half a year.
Is MySQL not Open Source? Heck, I'd love to help with that. We would
just have to change the name to something befitting the product. MySQL
still tickles my MS warning alerts; My Pictures, My Music, My Videos,
etc. How about 'GNO', pronounced like 'Know', stands for "GNO's Not
Oracle"?
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