Is Oracle Recruiting MySQL Software Into Its Empire?
With Oracle’s recent $7.38 billion dollar buyout of Sun Microsystems, some new product recipes are bound to end up on the fattened company’s revisited menu. New head chef Larry Ellison is now directing the flavor of Sun’s software products, and some people are concerned for possible drastic changes, especially during this economic recession and the necessity for Oracle to bring in new channels of revenue. One possible change-of-course could be converting Sun’s incredibly popular MySQL to a pay-for Software, which would bring thousands of businesses and software developers to their feet in protest. MySQL software allows people and companies alike to access and manage their website databases. MySQL is open source software, which means people can download it free of charge as well as access and contribute to the software’s code. To date, there have been over 11 million installations of the product, including high profile use by companies like Facebook, Google and Wikipedia. In the past, S
