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Is Oracle Killing MySQL?
Some insights from Peter Zaitsev on whether Oracle is finally killing MySQL, the impact on the open source community, and future implications for database management.
I think during all this time, Oracle was using this well-known formula for success in open source: “Conversion should never compromise adoption.” Obviously, I am not privy to Oracle management team conversations, and I can’t say whether this is ignorance or ill intent, but such product decisions over the last few years are surely not good for MySQL adoption at a time when PostgreSQL has been winning hearts and minds in strides and have significantly closed the adoption gap with MySQL according to DB-Engines, and is already the most popular open source relational database according to In any case, unless Oracle turns its attention to the needs modern developers have from a relational database, it will be killing it, if not through action, then through inaction!
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