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MySQL fork duo tear down Oracle's Iron Man fantasy

MySQL Con The battle to own MySQL is over and Oracle executives are fanning out to woo open sourcers, but MySQL luminaries have mobilized to win the hearts and minds of DBAs and developers.
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As a corporate entity MySQL had lost its focus on innovation - even before the Sun then Oracle acquisitions, he said. Features in the then planned MySQL 5.0 appealed more to OEMs interested in a cheap embedded replacement to Oracle or for running SAP's dusty old R/3 rather than users like Facebook and Google looking to the future of large-scale, multi-core, 64-bit computing.

... it will have to be a benefit ...
... the life of sparc will guarantee something exists ...
... besides the orwellian intel-microsoft monopoly ...
... and the obscure IBM world ...

... and if mysql and oracle can reach a SQL compatible syntax ...
... and aligned data types ...
... the benefits to both mysql and oracle developers will be huge ...
... "scalability" ...
... reinventing the wheel every day is "not" efficient nor effective ...

... some of the oracle technology for RAD ...
... would make MySQL move ahead light years instantly ...
... the presence of Mysql on Open OS such as BSD and embedded ...
... the miracle of diffusion of LAMP ...
... can open entirely new markets for Oracle ...
... and a tighter interoperability linux-solaris ...
... can solve the monopoly bottleneck of redhat ...

... this seems the most "rational" move for an IT software company in decades ...