The main question is: Will Oracle permits a cheaper DB in his portfolio with almost the same reliability than his main and expensive DB?
Ok. MySQL is the main database in a wide 'open source' community. That people never will bought Oracle to build a phpBB forum or to install Joomla, but what happen with Flirk, Amazon.com, Digg, CNET, Craiglist, Nokia, Wordpress, Wikipedia, YouTube, FaceBook, ... and other 'big fishs'? Will they "invited" to buy Oracle? Most of the end medium-small firms uses MySQL because know that "successful cases" and they rely on MySQL. But what happens if those 'big fishs' abandon MySQL and migrates to Oracle? Will the actual rely in a enterprise environment maintains? I'm sure that Oracle won't abandon MySQL, but will use this "influence" to "invite" to that big end users to migrate to Oracle. I suppose that will made them "an offer they can't refuse". First reducing the actual rate of patches, slowing the developing of the connectors (.NET connector, ODBC, J/Connector) and in a prudential time offering Oracle to a ridiculous part of this prize and supporting them in the migration with a huge quantity of hours in experts. But only to that 'big fishs'. When there's no 'big fish' in the MySQL ocean, the CEOs in the small-medium enterprise will think "No big project is using MySQL. I have doubts and fear about using MySQL in my enterprise. I'll call to Oracle to paid a huge quantity of money and all my doubts and fears will disappears". And I think, the same strategy will use them with "Glass Fish" (http://java.sun.com/javaee/community/glassfish/). Oracle has 2 JAVA EE application servers: OAS (will be deprecated in short) and Weblogic. I think in a few years MySQL will be only the database for phpBB and Joomla and in 5 years MySQL will replace to "Oracle Personal Edition". -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
