Re: Oracle , what else ?

[mos]

At 08:06 AM 4/21/2009, Gilles MISSONNIER wrote:
>hello people,
>bad joke is not it ?
>
>After MySQL bought by the java maker,
>  and now Sun bought by Oracle,
>
>what are we gonna run as RDBMS ?

It seems like the little fish are getting eaten by the bigger fish.

I understand Microsoft is now going to buy Oracle.  :-)
(Sorry, just kidding)

re:MySQL. This is a smart move by Oracle because now they will have the 
dominant database on the web. They can't sell Oracle to most web developers 
so they need to keep MySQL alive. Whether they keep updating it is another 
question. I am a little worried about MySQL enterprise because they will 
likely hike the fees for that. They could  try and pressure the major MySQL 
web sites like Wikipedia to switch to Oracle. I don't think this will work 
since most websites are free and not cash driven so they don't have the 
money or skill set to switch to Oracle. If they try and kill MySQL 
enterprise, Oracle will get one very angry community after it and they 
can't afford that.  The real question is whether they will let MySQL wither 
and die by not providing updates for it?

To see what will happen to MySQL take a look at how Oracle handled InnoDb. 
How many updates have they released since they purchased it? I really don't 
know so someone will need to check. Is Oracle is too big to make MySQL 
updates any kind of priority? It seems that the larger the company and the 
more products they have, the less interest they have in their lower revenue 
making products. I hope this is not the case with Oracle, but the updates 
in the next year will determine where MySQL is headed.

Just one guy's opinion.

Mike