With Oracle announcing to acquire Sun (which owns MySQL) their strategy of integrating the enterprise IT stack continues. Now they have two OS products (Oracle Linux) and Sun Solaris. They also now own Java.
I wrote an article in February 2007 that one of the outcomes of Open Source Software (OSS) was the fragmentation of the enterprise IT stack. People could pick and choose the software used. This has lead to increased complexity and Oracle is playing an integrator role now. Basically Oracle can approach businesses and say they can reduce the complexity.
Reading various MySQL blogs and websites, there is a grave concern that Oracle will just let MySQL wither on the vine. I see Oracle using MySQL as a way to allow people to start with MySQL and eventually convert to Oracle Databases as their businesses and database requirements grow. Oracle already owns Innodb, which is the most popular transactional engine for MySQL. Working on making databases customers migration from MySQL to Oracle seamless would be good step for starters.
What does that mean for MySQL?
Given the code is available new databases will appear as forks of that code. Ironically all that will do is increase the amount of complexity in choice for databases.
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