So people will fork MySQL and Oracle will end up maintaining two commercial data base product and still have the same market share as before Sun acquisition. People who now run MySQL, PostgreSQL or LightSQL are not going to switch to Oracle. I have hunch that people who run Oracle will also refuse to switch to commercial version of MySQL. That seem like a dumb business decision to me.
The most valuable software product that Oracle got from Sun acquisition was Solars which they manage to kill fairly quickly. I see the same is going to happen to MySQL. So they gave 8 billion dollars for what? Java...
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