If Oracle firewalls mysql

Interesting post today here.

The discussions :

Ellison has offered to create a separate entity within a combined Oracle/Sun to house MySQL which would be “firewalled” off from the rest of the company, possibly with its own board of directors

I hope this does not happen. Not for the sake of Oracle(ORCL) but for the sake of mySql. I was earlier led to believe that Oracle will in-fact not kill mysql. Open source is not going away and unless they bought sun just to kill sun , the sun software suite is all open source , open source is strategic to oracle also. So , this made me believe that oracle will figure out a way of dealing with mySQL just as IBM figured out eclipse and rational studio relationship.

Now if they end up creating a firewall between mySQL and Oracle with a separate board of directors, then we should surely expect mySQL to die. Oracle will ultimately own mySQL and if it cannot monetize it without hurting Oracle RDBMS it is going to kill it(in time).

Update: dec 07 - Apparently Oracle says that the new york post report is false.

Update : Jan 17: More thoughts from Marc Fleury here http://www.thedelphicfuture.org/2010/01/save-mysql.html

With the recent trend to somehow treat OSS software as public property.(Refer Yahoo boss and the mysql stuff) it is only going to hurt the OSS movement. It will negatively impact the OSS acquisition appetite for Enterprises as they might have to bundle in the cost of Liability insurance when in acquisition talks.

Not a good approach.

The OSS route was developing into - I along with others write some software , get some adopotion and then redemption with an Acquisition . Now the redemtion part is questionable.