A multiyear agreement between Oracle and MySQL over the InnoDB storage engine license should put an end to fears of a potential Oracle-fueled money grab for MySQL's customers.
Fortunately for all of MySQL's users, including some large corporate names, collectors from MySQL.
Oracle purchased InnoDB last November, sparking controversy that its top executive, Larry Ellison, could use the purchase as a wedge to dislodge MySQL from companies using it. However, Oracle president Charles Phillips assured MySQL that wasn't the case.
IDG report, from ZDNet, that indicated MySQL would build its own transactional engine now that InnoDB and another Oracle acquisition, Sleepycat Software, are off the market.
"Given the shot across the bow those acquisitions represented and the potential for customer disruption, it probably was in MySQL's best long-term interests to control that technology," RedMonk analyst Stephen O'Grady said in that report.
Until that happens, MySQL and Oracle are in a unique situation, according to MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, who commented in the article, "Oracle told us that it's business as usual--they don't want to slow us down, and they will fix bugs. It's pretty good having Oracle as a subcontractor."
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