It's offical, Oracle won.

[el_jentel1]

Yes folks, it's true, Oracle now has full control over Sun which means they have full control over MySQL.

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/eu-gives-...r-sun-purchase

God knows what will happen after that, will they kill MySQL? turn it commercial? time to consider alternatives just in case, such as PostgreSQL.

el_jentel1 Reviewed by el_jentel1 on 21st Jan 2010. It's offical, Oracle won. Yes folks, it's true, Oracle now has full control over Sun which means they have full control over MySQL. Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/eu-gives-oracle-unconditional-approval-for-sun-purchase God knows what will happen after that, will they kill MySQL? turn it commercial? time to consider alternatives just in case, such as PostgreSQL. Rating: 5

[wf?9]

warezfreak09 is nt happy, he is sad

[nirav]

ohhh its too bad man

[JManiac]

Yeah it's a sad day. The only positive aspect is that as an Open Source product, anybody can fork the product and continue it separately from Sun/Oracle.

[shavin]

i think they will commercialize MySQL n other products soon.

but will also provide free enterprise edition like MS does.

[Hyperz]

In a worst case scenario you can expect someone (or rather some group) to fork the MySQL source. So I don't think this will have a big impact in most cases. Nothing the average webmaster should worry about.

[JManiac]

In a worst case scenario you can expect someone (or rather some group) to fork the MySQL source. So I don't think this will have a big impact in most cases. Nothing the average webmaster should worry about.

Yeah that would definitely kill MySQL, damn with this Oracle.

[jayfella]

i think the open-source product you referred me to, hyperz, SQLite is actually quite an impressive little thing. If popularity grows, it may be further developed and speeded up a bit.

http://www.sqlite.org/

[Hyperz]

SQLite isn't fit for the kind of stuff regular server side databases are used for. It is popular but its use is mostly limited to client side software that needs an on the spot (portable) database.

JManiac: It wouldn't kill MySQL, only its name would change. Oracle can't change the license of the previous releases which means that in effect MySQL would continue but under a different name. And most likely all developers would simply move to the forked project.

[JimA]

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.