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Business plan:

1. Create a good product and a company. 2. Sell the company for 1 billion. (Profit!) 3. Whine about how the new owner is bad and leave it. 4. Start a NewAndBetterMySQL company. 5. ??? 6. Profit?

Now seriously. If there will happen a confrontation between "Oracle MySQL" and "OpenSource MySQL", I see two possible outcomes:

1. Noone will pay 1 billion for NewAndBetterMySQL next time.

2. The confusion between different versions of the database may mean, that the "OpenSource MySQL" will lose the enterprise market for some time.



Perhaps Oracle indeed thinks that some very suitable confusion is worth some serious money?


Maybe (really hoping) Drizzle will be better for the web. For enterprise, Postgres




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