From: Claudio Nanni Date: April 20 2009 6:16pm Subject: Re: Sun bought by Oracle List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/217192 Message-Id: <49ECBC02.8050803@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We are talking of financial moves here. I think nothing will be touched at least for first years, I don't see product or services overlapping. Oracle is one thing, MySQL another. If they are so crazy to 'shut-down' MySQL, the second after there would be the fork, MySQL could be 'closed', but the community is and will always be open. I, myself, I would stop using MySQL immediately and switch to drizzle or any other fork, or any other open project. Cheers Claudio Eric Bergen wrote: > I don't think the purchase was about MySQL at all. I'm sure Oracle is > far more interested in java, zfs, and solaris than they are MySQL. > MySQL is just an added bonus that will go well with their acquisition > of Innobase Oy a few years ago. Oracle didn't kill InnoDB and it's not > very likely that they will kill MySQL. If you walk around the user > conference this week you will see why it would be incredibly stupid > try to try kill MySQL. Not that companies like Percona would let that > happen anyway. After all it is GPL. > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, > wrote: > >> >>> From: Peter Brawley [mailto:peter.brawley@stripped] >>> >>> An optimist wrote that. A pessimist, Larry Dignan at >>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598&tag=nl.e539, wrote point six: >>> >>> "Oracle gets to kill MySQL. There's no way Ellison will let that >>> open source database mess with the margins of his database. >>> MySQL at best will wither from neglect. In any case, MySQL >>> is MyToast." >>> >>> We ought to know who's right within half a year. >>> >>> >> Is MySQL not Open Source? Heck, I'd love to help with that. We would >> just have to change the name to something befitting the product. MySQL >> still tickles my MS warning alerts; My Pictures, My Music, My Videos, >> etc. How about 'GNO', pronounced like 'Know', stands for "GNO's Not >> Oracle"? >> >> >> The information contained in this message and any attachment may be >> proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work >> product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader >> of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or >> agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended >> recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, >> distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. >> If you have received this communication in error, please notify me >> immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all >> copies and backups thereof. Thank you. >> >> >> >> -- >> MySQL General Mailing List >> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql >> To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=eric.bergen@stripped >> >> >> > > > >