Imagine any large software product, open source or otherwise, with 10+ years of history and a large team behind it. Now imagine that large team disbanded and a

Imagine any large software product, open source or otherwise, with 10+ years of history and a large team behind it. Now imagine that large team disbanded and assigned to other projects. That's the problem of Oracle not supporting it. There is this myth of large open source projects being built collectively by thousands of individual developers in their bedrooms. It doesn't actually work that way. MySQL has a large onsite development team that until recently drew their salary from Sun. If their new bosses decided to pull the plug, that would be a big deal.