[geeks] And the other shoe drops - Oracle to buy Sun

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:44:52PM +0100, Mark Benson wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2009, at 13:28, Eric Railine wrote:
>
>> It's official:
>>
>> http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp
>
> As a MySQL user, I suddenly feel like I might be screwed...

> As a fan of Solaris and ZFS... I really don't know WHAT to think now.

For MySQL users, I think there are plenty of forks they could move to.
That said, I doubt that Oracle will kill MySQL.  They probably want the
support fees that can get from supporting large internet services that
will never, ever, ever consider something like Oracle.