On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Dinh <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it trustworthy? Oracle is not friendly to open source at all. They can > kill MySQL just by delaying to fix bugs. MySQL development is rather open. > It is quite opposite to Oracle style. >
AFAIK it was one of the conditions imposed by US and the EU to approve the deal[1], so at least for the next five years they will have to continue to support MySQL. Also as I said, MySQL isn't competition to them, both are targeted to different markets. Their competition is MS SQL server and others, and MySQL will help them to compete in that market. Do you think Oracle will some day drop their prices up to the point that a SMB will be able to pay a license for it ? I don't think so. Probably they will overcharge for a MySQL support contract, but it's open source nature will make that other companies offer a cheaper support for it. And in the remote case that the petition manages to make Oracle sell off MySQL to comply withe EU terms, who will buy it ? who can guarantee that someone more evil, for example MS or IBM doesn't buy it ? that would be even worse. It would need to be bought by someone big but that doesn't already have a database, As I see it, while Oracle can make money from it they will continue to invest on it to improve it to make it a better competitor in markets where Oracle database can't go because of it's astronomic price. Probably the only thing that will not ever happen is that we will not see MySQL replacing Oracle someday, but that would not ever happen even if they still were a standalone company. [1] http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/oracle-sun-offer-win-eu-approval/article-188311 Juancho Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
