Mon, Jan 4, 2010 11:42 AM
With the delivery this morning of Monty Widenius' petition to stop Oracle from getting the MySQL open source database along with Sun Microsystems to antitrust regulators, Oracle's acquisition of Sun has a lot of people talking about the future of MySQL.
There's a lot to be found on this - I did a brief search and turned up a good many articles this morning at news.google.com.
Apparently in December Oracle offered concessions in response to the petition and from concerns raised by the EU over allegations of reduced competition, but that's done little to sway those concerned.
There's a wide range of opinions on this in the blogosphere, from "what, me worry?" to "the sky is falling!".
One of the few distinct articles is one from InfoWorld which calls the EU's motivations into question.
Those of us who once loved Oracle Media Objects have no great love for the company that killed that fine tool (my first cross-platform xTalk), but in spite of my own personal misgivings about the company I must admit on this one I'm in the "what, me worry?" camp.
As Ryan Paul points out at Ars Technica:
Amid the ambiguity that afflicts Oracle's plans for the future of MySQL, a number of third-party vendors with close ties to the open source project have stepped up and professed a strong commitment to shepherding future development by maintaining community-oriented forks. Several of these companies have jointly established an organization called the Open Database Alliance which promises to provide a vendor-neutral environment for coordinating this effort.
MySQL is open source, so there's nothing preventing forks from filling in any gaps Oracle may create. If Oracle renigs on its promise to maintain MySQL as open source, even if the licensing nuances Ars Technical points out may inhibit furthering that specific code base, there are enough other truly free FOSS db engines to fill such a void.
Sure, that would be disruptive. But I don't think the sky is falling. At least not right now.
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