YAY! Oracle is going to drive MySQL into the ground! Thank god.
I'm getting really tired of cleaning up relational disasters.
I'm getting really tired of cleaning up relational disasters.
If Oracle were to stop developing, supporting, and licensing MySQL today it would not stop MySQL. There would still be Percona, Facebook, Google, Monty Program, Drizzle, and a large ecosystem of others supporting, patching, releasing, and blogging about it.
Love it or hate it, it's probably not going anywhere soon.
My gut feeling is that folks who will be directly impacted by Oracle price increases represent a tiny percentage of MySQL users.
mysql dying won't fix that. i've seen plenty of disasters in other databases.