[Cialug] Oracle buys Sun...

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:
> jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
>> I would hope MySQL remains as a free open source app, but I could see
>> MySQL enterprise falling to Oracle now.
>
> MySQL is GPL so it will always be open source.
>
> I think MySQL compliments Oracle and doesn't compete with Oracle so I
> don't see Oracle killing MySQL. Oracle bought Innobase in 2005 which is
> the creator of the InnoDB storage engine that MySQL can use.

Well, Oracle can stop MySQL/Sun/Oracle employees from working on
MySQL.  I don't follow MySQL development but I'd bet a number of the
more active MySQL developers now work for Oracle.

-- 
Jeff Ollie