Just like this time last year (I hope this isn't a perennial
event) everybody is expressing fear, uncertainty and doubt about
the future of MySQL in the wake of yet another acquisition. What
is going to happen?
MySQL isn't going to disappear tomorrow. Or even in the next ten
years. Why?
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- The internet runs on the LAMP stack. There is so much
technological infrastructure dedicated to MySQL that anybody
would be crazy to think that it is going to disappear anytime
soon. Hell, lots of companies still run 4.0 databases.
- The MySQL codebase is GPL. Even if Oracle just closed up the
MySQL office and set everybody packing the source code is ours to
use, to repackage, to redistribute and to enhance. Drizzle
already exists as a fork and others could emerge. I don't think
that forks and alternative distributions are bad.
So if MySQL isn't going to disappear, what is …