Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL

“From the MySQL User’s Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base. Sun will begin with close sourcing the backup solutions to MySQL, and will continue with more advanced features. With Oracle owning Innodb, and it being GPL, does this mean that MySQL will be removing it to introduce these features? Sun has had a very poor history of actually open sourcing anything.”

via Slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/04/16/2337224.shtml

If there comes the point where I can’t use MYSQL anymore, I have to change at least 10.000 lines of code

I know, I should have used functions or classes

~ by gutsyheron on April 18, 2008.