xalex - 9:43 pm on Apr 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

I think oracle would have to sell Mysql to someone else, as there world be Antitrust involved.

Mysql is big enough that someone else would pick it up. $1 billion is a pocket change when you compare the database market and Mysql market share. Mysql is too big to fail.

How many of us would fork over $x,#*$! just to make sure Mysql is up for another couple of years?

What I fear is, Oracle would inject enough poison to slow MySql and the features that make it popular in the first place.

MySql gets sold> Mysql Enterprise gets released> Oracle is gone