> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:25:41PM -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: >> Methinks that LAMP will be turning into LAPP if this deal goes >> through. I don't see why Oracle would want to continue development of >> a competing database product that can be used for free. > > A good point was made by a slashdot participant (yeah, that happens): > basically Oracle and MySQL have very different user bases. Have you ever > seen a wiki or blog running with a Oracle backend or an big industry ERP > running on MySQL? > > So I guess MySQL will survive Oracle, the same way it survived Sun's > sabotage. Some say that OO was similarly sabotaged by Sun. > > Code is free, companies are just in the way... Oracle will not be much > better/worse than Sun. The problem is that it's just much bigger now, > all of a sudden. > > I'm still pretty shocked by this.
MySQL will survive with or without Oracle as there are already quite a few forks around. As for MySQL with the backing of Oracle, that will end up being a business decision. In what will really help MySQL is the huge installed base, the existing business around it for the enterprises and all of the goodwill attached to the name and the brand. A well known brand has a lot of value and power. Of course they can use the huge marketing opportunity of having the huge MySQL base to try and sell more Oracle. _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
