[Cialug] Oracle buys Sun...

[chris]

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Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10223090-16.html
> 
> Wonder if this is the death-knell for MySQL as we know it?  Perhaps
> some group will fork the code...
> 


There already are some active forks, this one in particular is one of the ones that I have found more interesting:

http://drizzle.org/wiki/About_Drizzle

In the last few years Sun has put some solid folks from the OSS community on the payroll and directed their attention to
polishing up the SAMP stack. (Jeff Trawick and Nick Kew of Apache httpd fame to name two.)   I imagine Oracle will
continue on the path and do something like IBM has done with Tomcat.  They will embrace it and offer a clear/clean/easy
upgrade path to OracleDB should the user "outgrow" Mysql.  They can still sell lots of services around Mysql and
services are where the real money is made anyway.

crr



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