28 Jan
2010
28 Jan
'10
12:50 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Al Kags <alkags@gmail.com> wrote:
Taking away MySQL off the picture leaves us with the very powerful PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org/) so for now am still not crying so much. The time to go scream over my pillow is yet to come but as a precaution am downloading everything opensource and keeping it in my small data centre for future use when people are acquired.
Even if oracle does anything to mysql (like changing the license) ... the source code until that point is open source and it will get forked. The viral nature of the open source license ensures survival.