Will there be (OpenSource) MySQL in future?

[Waldschwein]

Hi!

Of course it has nothing to do with MySQL, but the company behind the database is... well, they are making money out of it. And making money with something that's for free isn't that easy.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2010-August/059310.html

So they began to close one of their major OpenSource projects (OpenSolaris), and I doubt others won't follow.
So in my eyes we should all concentrate on supporting other databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, MariaDB...)
It's not that hard, especially with WB supporting no PHP version below 5.2, so we can (not only WB but also modules / services) use PDO http://php.net/pdo

Yours Michael

[DarkViper]

Don't panic!!

This process around Solaris was in discussion a long time now.

It never touches mySQL! One is an operating system.. the other one is a database. Two completely different things.

ORACLE already has no plans to stop the open source version of mySQL!
They sell ORACLE-database as an highend product.
Also they are selling a mySQL-Enterprise version.

If the worst case really occures and ORACLE stops developing mySQL, so it will not be a problem for the opensource community to overtake the future development of mySQL. There is a stable running 5.x and it is under GPL license....

Don't panic!!

[BlackBird]

However, switching to PDO und extending to other databases is a must in my eyes.

[Waldschwein]

Don't panic!!

It's no panic, but we should think about it. MySQL is a dying language. Of course there are forks (MariaDB, Drizzle) but no webhoster will install them.
They are instead providing more and more SQLite or PostgreSQL, and even PHP includes SQLite since 5.0.
There was a decision about MySQL from EU Commission as it has to be Open-Source until 2015. So every web-programmer should not focus for any bigger future software only on MySQL. Of course there's no panic, but there will be in a few years the time, several webhoster won't provide anything from Oracle. And often not because "the company is bad" but "supporting this company many people that are loud in the internet are against".

Yours Michael