Am going back to PostGres! Oracle has a trail in all their acquisitions, they will go on to complicate a perfectly simple product(mysql) into something you require a PHD in oracle university to be able to install it optimally. I sincerely hope they keep mysql Open and Light as it is. But I'm afraid as mysql is touted as the greatest future threat to the Oracle DB empire how will they convince an organisation that runs a mysql cluster doing 10 Billion transactions a year and spending $599/year on a mysql-enterprise license to move over to thousands of dollars in licencing fees and possible hardware upgrades in order to run oracle???? My guess is they will try to reduce the growth of mysql in one way or another to solidify their cash-cow.





On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey guys,

About MySQL, I'm not really sure what's likely to happen, maybe
they'll kind of mix MySQL technologies into Oracle DBMS [purely
guesswork - same applies to OpenSolaris and Oracle Linux... maybe] As
for Java, I believe it'll remain open-source together with NetBeans.
They'll probably extend Java, increasing its capabilities.

But the best thing is to wait and see. I don't think they'll do
anything bad to these already popular tools and technologies.. :)


Me.

On 20/04/2009, Arthur Simiyu <arthursimiyu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just the thought that the future of MySQL, Java, Netbeans, OpenSolaris and
> so many more open source applications now lie in the hands of Oracle gives
> me shivers up my spine.
>
> regards,
> Simiyu
>
>
>
>


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