ONLamp: Pulling the Rug Under MySQL Oct 13, 2005, 01 :00 UTC (15 Talkback[s]) (9618 reads) (Other stories by Stéphane Faroult)
"No doubt that the OpenSOurce community is shaken by the announcement on October 7th that Oracle is acquiring Innobase, the company behind InnoDB. InnoDB is the product that enables MySQL to turn into an enterprise-grade DBMS, with the support for commit and rollback, foreign keys, row locking... Forget about all the reassuring noises about 'commitment to open source software,' etc. Commitment to keep OpenSource software under close watch, so that it stays a toy, and not a menace in the corporate world...?"
