Well, I suspect that Oracle will attempt to position MySQL as their "free Oracle-compatible" database offering, less support and high-end features but still feature-complete enough that people will continue using it (and hopefully, in Oracle's eyes, upgrade to their full database suite when need arises).
More to the point, I suspect they will position Oracle as a reliable MySQL-compatible database. MySQL uses a lot of weird extensions to SQL and owning the MySQL front end will make it easy for Oracle to add a 100% compatible front-end to their database. This will make it easy for companies that have deployed various things on MySQL to consolidate them all onto one big Oracle appliance (and, coincidentally, pay Oracle a lot of money in the process).
Well, I suspect that Oracle will attempt to position MySQL as their "free Oracle-compatible" database offering
Oracle already has a "free Oracle-compatible" database offering, Oracle XE. I doubt they'll replace it with something with less commonality with the main Oracle DB products, since that would make it harder for people to step up from the free product to the expensive one, a transition that Oracle has some strong reasons to make as easy as possible.
Ah, but MySQL is a lot more well-known and popular than Oracle XE which makes it ideal as a marketing tool. A few tweaks here and there and you could make it so that it's a piece of cake to replace a MySQL db with an Oracle db.
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Hope that the merger will not affect MySQL, Oracle and MySQL are competing products... scary stuff
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Well, I suspect that Oracle will attempt to position MySQL as their "free Oracle-compatible" database offering, less support and high-end features but still feature-complete enough that people will continue using it (and hopefully, in Oracle's eyes, upgrade to their full database suite when need arises).
/Mikael
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Oracle already has a "free Oracle-compatible" database offering, Oracle XE. I doubt they'll replace it with something with less commonality with the main Oracle DB products, since that would make it harder for people to step up from the free product to the expensive one, a transition that Oracle has some strong reasons to make as easy as possible.
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Ah, but MySQL is a lot more well-known and popular than Oracle XE which makes it ideal as a marketing tool. A few tweaks here and there and you could make it so that it's a piece of cake to replace a MySQL db with an Oracle db.
/Mikael
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