--- On Tue, 4/21/09, Daniel Fussell <dfuss...@byu.edu> wrote: > A moment of silence for MySQL > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246
I wouldn't assume the demise of MySQL just yet. First: Oracle's not likely to drop MySQL development unless they can guarantee that at least the paying MySQL customers (yes, there are some) will migrate to Oracle, as opposed to, say, Microsoft. Second: even if Oracle stops work on MySQL, the GPL'ed MySQL code is already out in the world, and there are in fact several other groups working on the database and even providing their own downloads -- see Percona for example. Some of those alternate versions include bug fixes and performance improvements that haven't (yet?) made their way back into the official mysql.com tree. Oracle could, I suppose, assert trademark rights and make the rest of the world stop using the MySQL *name*, but we still have the code. Third: Oracle already owns other open source database products, and they're still in development. See for instance Berkeley DB and InnoDB. Given that, why not also MySQL? -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
