Edward Screven addresses this point in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCpd4j72jA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCpd4j72jA - Oracle sees MySQL

Edward Screven addresses this point in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCpd4j72jA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCpd4j72jA - Oracle sees MySQL users as a distinct group of customers from the Oracle Database - 5 years on, the engineering team on MySQL is 2x what it was when acquired. By a simple metric (LoC), MySQL 5.6 has a larger delta than any previous release: https://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2013/03/05/mysql-code-size/ https://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2013/03/05/mysql-code-size... Edit: See also this interview with Percona's CEO - http://www.zdnet.com/article/mysql-why-the-open-source-database-is-better-off-under-oracle/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/mysql-why-the-open-source-datab...