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So will this mean the utter neutering of MySQL development...

or its sale to someplace where it might re-establish its development on the database playing field?

I think it is time to look into PostgreSQL and Drizzle.

that's not a bad idea, but as far as Wikipedia knows, there isn't a windows version of Drizzle available. this could eventually be a problem for some users.

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