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Why? MySQL has a well-maintained drop-in replacement outside of Oracle control (MariaDB). It's even mentioned in the article.

(And no one's ever heard of Glassfish, probably the reason why Oracle are dropping it)

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Agreed, every MySQL project I'm on is actually a MariaDB project. While I prefer Postgres and have arguments to present to clients who rely on MySQL, a fear of Oracle is not one of those arguments because I just don't think it matters what happens to MySQL proper.

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