It didn't say originally developed by Oracle. The statement is accurate; MySQL is currently developed by Oracle. At big companies, sometimes the corporate lawy

It didn't say originally developed by Oracle. The statement is accurate; MySQL is currently developed by Oracle. At big companies, sometimes the corporate lawyers are overly picky about wording in blog posts and public presentations, e.g. "make it clearer that MySQL isn't our in-house product" type of thing. fwiw, several of FB's top database folks originally worked for MySQL AB, so they're well aware of the development history.