MySQL will live on regardless of who owns the brand. First and foremost MySQL is a community and that community will continue to develop MySQL and take it in the direction they want it to go. Sure Oracle could try and force some 'features' or changes through but if the community didn't like them the community would just keep developing 'pre-oracle' MySQL, even if that happens to be under a different name.
Personally I would be surprised if the Oracle deal goes unchallenged. I don't think Oracle really 'want' MySQL as it makes very little money and it raises competition concerns. I wouldn't be surprised if Oracle were to look at offloading MySQL to ease competition fears, perhaps to someone like Google who are already heavily involved in the development of MySQL. On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 22:36 +0100, Andy Shellam wrote: > Personally (and I hope I'm wrong) I don't believe there's room in > Oracle's portfolio for two diverse RDBMSs, and I envisage them > re-branding MySQL as an Oracle open-source derivative which begins as > being the MySQL codebase but is slowly migrated toward Oracle's > engineering, to ease the transition for growing companies moving from > MySQL/Oracle open-source to the Oracle enterprise versions. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
