Death of MySQL is Greatly Exaggerated….
By Alex. Filed in MySQL, Open Source Rocks |
I’m noticing that quite a few folks are posting about how MySQL is going to die a slow and painful death now that Sun has been purchased by Oracle. As I commented on one site – I have to politely disagree. The MySQL franchise may very well go away or be rebranded (which I think would be a dumb move on Oracle’s part, given the large community, and significant market share that MySQL has), but the code itself won’t be able to be locked away, at least in the most current form.
Already there are two main forks of the MySQL server:
- Drizzle – which is focused on cloud computing and web based applications
- MariaDB – which is the MySQL server code upgraded with the Maria storage engine, headed by Monty.
Now having forks can cause significant rifts within any Open Source project’s community, but on the bright side no matter what happens with Oracle, the MySQL community does have alternatives that are in some way compatible. The same goes for many of the other projects that Sun has worked on and has been open-sourcing, most likely in preparation of being bought out.
I’m cautiously optimistic that Oracle won’t do anything too rash to the Sun/primary MySQL iteration and will work work to strengthening the ties to the MySQL community.
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