Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

[Robert Brenstein]

On 04.01.2010 at 12:53 Uhr -0800 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
>oic. I am wondering then how this is going to impact On-Rev, which 
>offers mySQL support? I intended to write a multiuser application 
>and host it on my On-Rev site, but I am wondering now if Runrev is 
>going to be forced to charge users an extra fee to continue to host 
>MySQL if Oracle ever decides to up the ante, so to speak, or even 
>discontinue mySQL to force people to adopt Oracle.
>
>Having a certain department here who purchased Solaris and Oracle 
>long ago for their server(s) and databases, I can testify that these 
>are VERY PRICEY options, and are overkill for almost all but the 
>high end database needs.
>

Another plausible scenario could be that Oracle decides to have two 
revenue streams, Oracle on the high-end and MySQL on the lower-end, 
expanding the scope of their products and keeping MySQL free for 
non-commercial users but cutting down its high-end features. All of 
this is however pure speculation and we just have to wait and see.

Robert