Just a little bit of news from the Oracle – MySQL empire.
Cofounder and creator Michael Monty, said in his blog post on Monday that Oracle should sell the open-source database MySQL to a suitable third party, to resolve the antitrust concerns over it’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
The key objective by Widenius is to find a home outside Oracle for MySQL, where the database can be developed and compete with existing products, including Oracle’s, according to Florian Mueller, a former MySQL shareholder who is currently working with Monty Program AB on this matter.”
This is now getting a bit crazy, if MySQL starts changing “hands” too much it could start to influence the quality of the product and then we may see it dying altogether, but hopefully that won’t happy and we will see MySQL to become the competitor everybody dreamed about.