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That is the beauty of free software: Oracle cannot kill MySQL. Never.

As long as there is an interested user, MySQL can be mantained and extended.

BTW, the whole site seems to be little more than a FUDfest.



I know this isn't the majority use case for people here, but if you ship MySQL alongside a closed-source product, you're required to buy a license. If Oracle stops selling licenses, that would screw over a fair number of people, open source notwithstanding.


I'm not sure this is true anymore. The mysql client library (which your closed source product needs to talk to mysql) is GPL. Now you want your closed-source program to stay that way, so you have to either dig up the old public domain client library, or write your own. Now there is another option, the new libdrizzle library is BSD licensed and is MySQL compatible.


MySQL is still selling licenses to someone, so I don't think it's as simple as that.


That is the hilarity of it. Monty and his core team have set up their own company and are forking the code into MariaDB. So Sun basically paid $1Bn for the domain name mysql.com, that is the one asset that they can be said to actually own in this deal. And then Oracle bought Sun...


I went to his talk at LFNW in April. Oracle/Sun own 'MySQL' in name and trademark only. The core IP, and more importantly the developers, are working with Monty on MariaDB. He was very clear that MySQL/MariaDB was not going to disappear.


The prediction on this site is that MySQL Enterprise will die: those people for who the data is vital and irreplaceable, and who need competent and responsive support for when something goes wrong.

For ISPs and website owners, it won't make a difference.




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