Please forgive my ignorance as I am far from any sort of database guru, but...so what? Mysql does everything I want and probably more since, as I said, I am no

Please forgive my ignorance as I am far from any sort of database guru, but...so what? Mysql does everything I want and probably more since, as I said, I am no guru; there are probably tons of things I would use and don't even know about. I very much doubt that sun plans to (or could) come banging down my door demanding that I pay them for a license or stop using their newly acquired software. I guess my point is that mysql does everything that I want. If nothing new comes out, this is not a big deal to me. If it turns out that there is some new feature that i want, and mysql doesn't have it, I will have to switch to a database that does. Could somebody explain why I should care about this? It seems like people are crying over spilled milk that hasn't even been spilled yet. "Oh no! There might be features that might have been developed for mysql at some point in the future that I might miss out on!" ?