Oracle and Sun merger: troubles with MySQL?
Michael Widenius, the founder of MySQL is asking for help with saving MySQL from the clutches of Oracle. I kind of don’t have any feelings for the guy himself as he was the one that sold it to Sun in the first place, but I’m much more interested in the other products of Sun. Some will most likely be killed such as Glassfish and Netbeans, some are kind of in the gray area and could go either way (Solaris), but some will most likely be developed further such as Java and OpenOffice.
Oracle can’t kill them outright, but just removing the backing of a corporation will definitely halt the development of some interesting projects, such as Darkstar Project. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what the European Commission will decide about the merger.
