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Monty talked a little about Oracle at his talk at LinuxFest Northwest. Video can be found here - http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1431407

Basically, he said Oracle owns MySQL in name only. Most of the brains behind it are already working with him on MariaDB or Brian Aker on Drizzle. He promised that MariaDB would remain binary compatible with MySQL.

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i guess this is why i don't get the whole ruckus surrounding the oracle purchase of sun. Can't some other entity just takeover the responsibilities (under different branding) if oracle decides to let mysql flounder?

Yes. Although there would be some setbacks, the MySQL documentation for example is not under an open source license.

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