The short version is that MySQL was acquired by Oracle (when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems). Following concerns about it remaining open source, MySQL was fo

The short version is that MySQL was acquired by Oracle (when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems). Following concerns about it remaining open source, MySQL was forked by it original creator, and is developed as MariaDB[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB