Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 20:17 UTC
When the news broke that Oracle wanted to buy Sun, a number of eyebrows were raised over what would happen to Sun's open source portfolio. While the US Department of Justice gave the green light for the deal to go through, the European Commission was among the eye brows raising crowd, and they were quite worried about the future of specifically MySQL.
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They tried to acquire MySQL for $750 million before Sun snapped them up for a billion. They already own the core technology originally for it (InnoDB) so it should be good having those communities coming back together...
People that thought Oracle didn't have plans for MySQL forget facts too quickly... although it will likely mean that Oracle will always ensure their own products add value to it - MySQL AB already made money by not opening everything they offered... what changes there? Nothing except Oracle - the guys that made us need a database - adding to it, hardly a bad thing.
Oracle has been on board with open source almost as long as IBM, they too do "Mixed Source" but that mixed source includes a LOT of investment in Open Source.
Don't be surprised to see MySQL targeted more at their Fusion middleware, with their core Enterprise business remaining as is.
Edited 2009-09-22 23:12 UTC