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Oracle's Hudson CI was also forked to Jenkins CI and the original developers went with it. Anecdotally, I've had conversations with people who are looking into

Oracle's Hudson CI was also forked to Jenkins CI and the original developers went with it. Anecdotally, I've had conversations with people who are looking into PostgreSQL as a MySQL alternative specifically because Oracle now owns MySQL and its future seems uncertain. So I agree that right now, it looks like Oracle is flailing around and missing the potential of open source.

runningdogx 15y ago
MySQL already has three maintained patchsets or complete forks, and there's no reason to believe any of them would die if Oracle stopped open sourcing MySQL tomorrow. Percona Server and MariaDB are drop-in compatible, while Drizzle went in a different direction. All three projects have some pre-Oracle MySQL developers working on them. Far be it from me to discourage someone from adopting Postgresql instead of MySQL, but there are other options that retain compatibility with mysql-only apps.