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It's offical, Oracle won.

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Yeah it's a sad day. The only positive aspect is that as an Open Source product, anybody can fork the product and continue it separately from Sun/Oracle.
 
i think they will commercialize MySQL n other products soon.

but will also provide free enterprise edition like MS does.
 
In a worst case scenario you can expect someone (or rather some group) to fork the MySQL source. So I don't think this will have a big impact in most cases. Nothing the average webmaster should worry about.
 
Hyperz said:
In a worst case scenario you can expect someone (or rather some group) to fork the MySQL source. So I don't think this will have a big impact in most cases. Nothing the average webmaster should worry about.
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Yeah that would definitely kill MySQL, damn with this Oracle.
 
i think the open-source product you referred me to, hyperz, SQLite is actually quite an impressive little thing. If popularity grows, it may be further developed and speeded up a bit.


Code: 
http://www.sqlite.org/
 
SQLite isn't fit for the kind of stuff regular server side databases are used for. It is popular but its use is mostly limited to client side software that needs an on the spot (portable) database.

JManiac: It wouldn't kill MySQL, only its name would change. Oracle can't change the license of the previous releases which means that in effect MySQL would continue but under a different name. And most likely all developers would simply move to the forked project.
 
I predict that Oracle will fork MySQL themselves and offer a 'Free' version and an 'Enterprise' (Paid) version which will get 90% of their development dollars.
 
JimA said:
I predict that Oracle will fork MySQL themselves and offer a 'Free' version and an 'Enterprise' (Paid) version which will get 90% of their development dollars.
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That wouldn't make sense and would most likely mean the free version gets a restrictive license of some sort. As I see it they have 2 choices, either they keep it like it is or turn it into a commercial product.

If they turn it into a commercial product they have a problem, namely the license would force them to either start from scratch again or release the full source of their product under GPL. Neither of these options seems attractive especially when taking into consideration that a commercial version would have little to offer when compared with a possible (and likely) GPL fork of the current code base. They could ask money for the support part but that would put them on the same fail road as MSSQL.

So again, whatever Oracle does it won't effect the end user much. The worst thing that could possibly happen is a name change from the users perspective.
 
JimA said:
I predict that Oracle will fork MySQL themselves and offer a 'Free' version and an 'Enterprise' (Paid) version which will get 90% of their development dollars.
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lol hyperz they are just copying comments from the given page :S

Ontopic: sad news but their will always be alternatives
 
Any one who has gone in and done innodb tweaking in mysql will know there is no database like it. Never, although postgresql would be the next best it is a long way behind.
 
I have already worked with PostgreSQL and it's I must say I didn't have too much problems with it, main issue will be adapting ;)
 
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