Oracle buys Sun (MySQL too!)

gto · Post by **gto** » 20.04.2009, 17:07

As you may know by know, Oracle buyed Sun by U$ 7.4 Mi, which is the house of MySQL.

http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp
http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html

The Oracle only spoke this about MySQL:

hat does Oracle plan to do with MySQL?
MySQL will be an addition to Oracle’s existing suite of database products, which already includes Oracle Database 11g, TimesTen, Berkeley DB open source database, and the open source transactional storage engine, InnoDB.

And you, what your feelings about this?

fcodebue · Post by **fcodebue** » 20.04.2009, 17:21

I hope mySQL will be opensource in the future... or we have to dismiss support in 7.x

Post by **mdaems** » 20.04.2009, 22:06

Current version IS opensource and can never be closed. So no reason to dismiss support in version 7.x (already). With the open source forks/alternative branches that exist already (Drizzle, percona, ourdelta) we don't have to be afraid mysql just disappears within a few years. But market share may decrease/increase depending on the current transaction.

Mark

gto · Post by **gto** » 22.04.2009, 17:06

Sorry for the "semi-offtopic"

Currently, Oracle said that MySQL will be the same as we know, but I have my particular fears that, somehow, they drop support for some of adavanced features on MySQL to promote Oracle.

Wait and see!