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This is wishful thinking on your part. I know it's cool to hate on MySQL, but it's too big now for Oracle to kill. It has too large of an installed base, too
by spudlyo 16y ago
This is wishful thinking on your part. I know it's cool to hate on MySQL, but it's too big now for Oracle to kill. It has too large of an installed base, too much mindshare, and too strong of a community to be killed by anything Oracle does.
If Oracle were to stop developing, supporting, and licensing MySQL today it would not stop MySQL. There would still be Percona, Facebook, Google, Monty Program, Drizzle, and a large ecosystem of others supporting, patching, releasing, and blogging about it.
Love it or hate it, it's probably not going anywhere soon.
- jijoy 16y agoThey wont kill it . They will increase the price of it. That will make MySQL to less popular for sure .
- spudlyo 16y agoI don't think so. In my experience, the only folks who pay for MySQL are big conservative companies who must have support contracts, and companies who bundle MySQL with their closed source products. My gut feeling is that folks who will be directly impacted by Oracle price increases represent a tiny percentage of MySQL users.