Oracle to buy SUN for 7.4B $, I guess no one didn’t hear this news…
But what will happen to MySQL the most popular and best performer DBMS in the OpenSource world ??
In a brief letter about the deal, Oracle President talks about the benefit of Oracle owning Java and Solaris, without a word about MySQL. Not the reassurance corporate MySQL users might be seeking.
Will Oracle kill MySQL in favor of its over priced DBMS?
MySQL used to be a 100% free replacement for the pricy Oracle 10g, and with great performance benchmarks…
MySQL even attracted more corporate customers since they launched their enterprise plans and solutions, and they also managed to get a larger base of paying customers by providing clustering solutions, load balancing, and the new features that were introduced in the 5.x series…
Will this simply tempt Oracle to simply kill MySQL without a sweat…
Earlier in 2006 Oracle tried to buy MySQL, but MySQL turned the offer down saying “We will be part of a larger company, but it will be called MySQL” !!!!
After that during April 2006 Oracle bought InnoDB the famous and fast storage engine used in MySQL, and then Oracle’s dark intentions started to become more obvious…
Oracle’s Acquisition of InnoDB: What does it mean?
Now MySQL is served to Oracle on a platter of gold…Thanks to Sun…
Now what will happen to MySQL?
The best scenario (just an imagination), Oracle will continue working on MySQL and stop looking to it as a threat, and MySQL can really benefit from some of the technologies used in Oracle, this will give a great boost to both Community users and corporate customers, and Oracle would offer two DBMS solutions, one for small-medium enterprises based on MySQL, and the other for the large enterprises using 10g & 11g technologies…
In that scenario, MySQL would co-exist along side Oracle’s DBMS, and can provide great compatibility and interoperability between the two DBMSs, and Oracle would really contribute greatly to the open source communities…
Another scenario, Oracle could sell off MySQL to some other 3rd party (much weaker, and less competitive), and I don’t think they’re that dumb to do this…
Yet another scenario, Oracle can just deplete MySQL of its resources and funding and leave it to die quietly…
In the later scenario, we could see some good people try to resurrect MySQL and forge another DBMS based on the latest MySQL sources, but there’s always a chance that this won’t happen…
Only the coming days will tell what will happen to MySQL and other Open Source projects and solutions that SUN currently provide and support such as Solaris, SUN ONE Directory, Identity Management, Communication Suite, Lustre (distributed cluster filesystem), and more and more solutions and software suites that SUN currently offer for free…
But I must say, I’m really really sad about this acquisition, and I don’t feel good about it…
Let’s just hope for the best…
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Still the share holders have to approve it and the regulators have to approve it.
What are the chances that it would get rejected by either..
Is there any chance .. . the community can raise agains this 🙂
When money talks, games rules are changed, I believe that the best the community can do, is forge MySQL as another open source project, but this won’t happen unless oracle really decide to kill MySQL and take steps twards this…
Tried http://www.mariadb.org/ ?