hopefully to postgresql! I've been using postgresql as my main database since 2003. In the past if my client was using mysql, I would highly recommend that they switch to postgresql (almost 100% did).
http://www.postgresql.org/
From the article it seems that most of the people are still at Oracle.
The article is about what happened to the core developers of MySQL, not its users.
I thought a lot of them went to work on Drizzle (now part of Rackspace)