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I think MySQL needs to follow the path of Libre Office (the document foundation) and fork. The project should be run by the community and not controlled by Oracle. Oracle, like Sun did not create the database (Sun bought it in 2008) and are trying to profit off the community MySQL has created. This is open source and should remain open source.

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There is a fork of MySQL called Drizzle which is run by the chief architect of MySQL before sun bought them. From what I remember reading a while ago it's being specifically targeted at being used for Web Backends.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(database_server))

MariaDB is one viable fork: http://mariadb.org/

The fact that it's run by Monty Widenius is definitely a plus.

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