Apparently Oracle is trying to buy Sun, which in turn will make them the owners of MySQL.
They could then either turn the open source DB software into a proprietary, commercial product or let it slowly die. Since the PHP & MySQL combo is widely popular for dynamic sites, this could have major negative effects with an increase in hosting costs across the board being the least worrisome.
The creator of MySQL explains it in more detail here, along with what we can do to prevent it: <http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html>
The US governement has already approved the deal, so it seems the EC is our last hope.
Martin
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Dec 13
Pieter Roosens Re: Help saving MySQL !
Dec 13, 2009; 09:15
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