MySQL, Oracle And Cloud Computing

[ Thanks to Krish
for this link. ]

“Ever since Oracle announced the acquisition of Sun
Microsystems along with MySQL, all hell broke loose in the open
source community. With EU questioning the deal, there is a war (of
words) erupting inside the community with one side asking EU to
block the deal or, at the very least, change the license to another
open source license from GPL and the other side urging EU to allow
the transaction to go through. Even though I have no love for
Oracle, I think it is time to let the deal go through at least for
the sake of Sun employees who are sitting there with their future
unknown. At the same time, I am not unduly worried about the future
of MySQL because I have complete confidence in the open source
license of MySQL. Let me try to explain my position here in this
post.

“For the sake of argument, let us consider the hypothetical
scenario of Oracle killing off MySQL. This leaves us with the only
option of going with one or more of the MySQL forks. Such a
scenario is perfectly fine for most of us except a handful of
people who are either packaging MySQL into a proprietary software
or keen on building a business making money from a dual licensing
scheme like the one that MySQL uses now.”

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