Just got the news from a business radio at lunch and I got it confirmed when returning to the office through this announcement on Sun's website.

Naturally, if you are thinking Java, this makes a lot of sense. And I'm also buying the "vertical" strategy announced by Larry Ellison. Unfortunately, it means also that MySQL has a serious problem. I hope the people attending the MySQL conference this week in Santa Clara will get more information about the futur of our preferred database system.

logo for a fork MySQL

Well, it's open-source, thus it still possible in the near future that MySQL would become OurSql ! It seems the name was only used for a podcast and not a real system. Moreover, the owner of the domain name is ready to donate oursql.org to a project forking MySQL Enterprise or Community !

Et pour aller plus loin dans l'analyse et de ce que cela implique pour l'Open-Source, cet article du MagIT pose les bonnes questions. (Ils ont réveillé PB à 5 heures du mat' pour le faire !!)