[dba-Tech] Goodbye

A couple of years ago Oracle bought out Sun systems and then took possession
of two of the main products, OpenOffice and MySQL and then tried to figure
how to make money off them. Both products have been wildly successful for
years.

The first major defection was that the entire senior staff working on the
OpenOffice package quit and then opened their own competing package called
LibraOffice. Since then, even though Oracle has continued to pour money,
into OpenOffice, their new competitor has continued to surpass them in
reliability, performance and features. Recently Oracle announced they were
putting OpenOffice on the back burner as their competition LibraOffice had
climbed to an insurmountable lead and they were not going to waste more
money unless they could see some major profits...

Oracle still had the crown jewels of MySQL and they have been continuing to
develop a plan to milk the product popularity by adding pay as you go extra
features while leaving the base version untouched. Initially, there was a
huge flight of MySQL users away from the product but slowly larger supporter
have been migrating, some moving to new databases like Postgres, NoSQL dbs
and even MariaDB, a fork created by the original and senior developer of
MySQL. 

Recently, FaceBook announced that they were going to be moving one hundred
percent to a NoSQL DB. Beyond that, it must have come as a real shock when
one of MySQL's biggest proponents announced they were moving to MariaDB.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/15/red_hat_to_ditch_mysql_for_mariadb_i
n_rhel_7/

Jim