You could look at their JVM play and continued MySQL Community Edition development (presuming that happens) as giving them a foothold in the non-legacy fields;

You could look at their JVM play and continued MySQL Community Edition development (presuming that happens) as giving them a foothold in the non-legacy fields; there's a lot of fun stuff happening on the JVM these days, and MySQL is still (for better or worse) the default first open source RDBMS that people tend to use for new projects. Whether they see it that way or not is a completely different matter.