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How will Oracle's acquisition effect MySQL?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 11:28 am
by JAB Creations
How will Oracle's acquisition effect MySQL? I've read that Oracle's database and MySQL are direct competitors...I'm surprised Oracle was able to envelope Sun as it has without any (at least noticeable) debate not just government wise but also among developers.
I've also read that MySQL is very likely going to be forking between Oracle's ownership and MariaDB. As far as I can tell LAMP is pretty much the de facto for web servers so I am wondering how this will eventually effect every day developers?
Re: How will Oracle's acquisition effect MySQL?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 12:29 pm
by Benjamin

Moved to General Discussion
Re: How will Oracle's acquisition effect MySQL?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 12:45 pm
by crazycoders
I didn't read much about this but you can be sure that the acquisition will not affect LAMP setups on a short term basis... It took years to reach the LAMP strategy and 95% of linux servers operating apache do offer a LAMP arch so it will not disapear unless they wish to tear apart the development community.
I think what will happen is that Oracle will greatly contribute to the amelioration of MySQL in terms of features whilst keeping it free for the LAMP community. They will add better support to all that is missing or not well implemented in MySQL whilst maybe taking a few ideas for their own database. After all, MyISAM stays to this day the fastest engine on the market. Oracle may benefit from this!
On the other hand, MySQL has a lot to learn from Oracle to stay in the race... we all know that there is a lot of job to do on the InnoDB engine, on stored procedures, UDFs and even more. MySQL has been a reference for several other DB in terms of speed but now it needs to grow to unprecedented levels of usability and reach the stage of all other databases out there.
Re: How will Oracle's acquisition effect MySQL?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 3:25 pm
by Eran
This is not related to Oracle directly, but it concerns MySQL future -
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/05/prweb2417854.htm
Re: How will Oracle's acquisition effect MySQL?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 3:29 pm
by crazycoders
Thanks, it really clears a lot!