The future of the Sun-owned open-source database MySQL seems unclear.
EU investigating Oracle's planned acquisition and it is precisely the relationship to MySQL which has aroused interest in European competition authorities. The investigation is the only remaining hurdle before the acquisition can go through.
Oracle chief Larry Ellisson have assured that they in no way planning to get rid of freeprog database, and also claims that Oracle and MySQL do not have a mutually competitive relationship.
Despite this, many customers and developers who now count on the buttons, and considering whether they should get rid of MySQL.
Since the acquisition plans were known, it has been started several different development track, with the MySQL code base.
In an interview with the Swedish newspaper says CEO Anders Liling in freeprog company Linpro that this is a sign that the project members do not agree on the direction.
- It suggests that users do not trust what Oracle does with MySQL. There is absolutely nothing wrong with MySQL as database. Pitchfork has occurred because the developers do not trust the Oracle, "he says.
MYSQL was weakened even before the acquisition by Sun announced: Co owner of MySQL, David Axmark, and Ulf Michael "Monty" Widenius left Sun last fall - Widenius officially in February of this year - openly unhappy with Sun's handling of the product. Mårten Mickos, frontman and chief executive of MySQL over many years, also left the Sun in February.
Widenius's self behind one of the MySQL code, under the name MariaDB. Monty is also central in the effort to gather MySQL environment in an alliance called the Open Database Alliance.
His new company, Monty Program, has also employed a large number of resource persons and former employees of MySQL. One of them, who believe MySQL has failed to manage their own development environment, says that there are now many who flee from the project:
- There is great movement now among MySQL users. People are worried, and many are on the way over to MariaDB, said Henrik Ingo.
In addition, he believes that there are many developers who can disappear into freeprog database PostgreSQL; it may be the largest competitor to MySQL.
Ingo has the support of Magnus Hagnander, Swedish representative for PostgreSQL, which confirms the trend that worried developers flee away from MySQL.
