It's offical, Oracle won.

[DeLeTeD]

yea sad day and like JimA said there will be a free version and a paid version I think

[Hyperz]

I predict that Oracle will fork MySQL themselves and offer a 'Free' version and an 'Enterprise' (Paid) version which will get 90% of their development dollars.

That wouldn't make sense and would most likely mean the free version gets a restrictive license of some sort. As I see it they have 2 choices, either they keep it like it is or turn it into a commercial product.

If they turn it into a commercial product they have a problem, namely the license would force them to either start from scratch again or release the full source of their product under GPL. Neither of these options seems attractive especially when taking into consideration that a commercial version would have little to offer when compared with a possible (and likely) GPL fork of the current code base. They could ask money for the support part but that would put them on the same fail road as MSSQL.

So again, whatever Oracle does it won't effect the end user much. The worst thing that could possibly happen is a name change from the users perspective.

[shadow.prx]

I predict that Oracle will fork MySQL themselves and offer a 'Free' version and an 'Enterprise' (Paid) version which will get 90% of their development dollars.

lol hyperz they are just copying comments from the given page

Ontopic: sad news but their will always be alternatives

[JimA]

lol hyperz they are just copying comments from the given page

Ontopic: sad news but their will always be alternatives

That's me you idiot lol

[shadow.prx]

(^-^) lol ok sorry

[Nemesis]

Oh well lol.

[SplitIce]

Any one who has gone in and done innodb tweaking in mysql will know there is no database like it. Never, although postgresql would be the next best it is a long way behind.

[BlaZe]

Fcuk Oracle !
Curse them !!!!!!!

[BottyZ]

Its been a while coming, if oracle didn't do it someone else would of.

Fingers crossed for future developments.

[Whoo]

I have already worked with PostgreSQL and it's I must say I didn't have too much problems with it, main issue will be adapting