Moving mySQL does gore my ox. mySQL is all the database I need for most work. I've used Oracle for many commercial applications. There is one thing certain about installing Oracle on a server. If it was fast before Oracle arrived, it will run like a wounded dog once Oracle is installed. It's best to put Oracle on a dedicated server where it isn't destroying the performance of everything else on the server. As a database, it works fine. It's just more expensive than I can justify for research projects with zero revenue. I have very good results using python or C++ library packages to hook my applications to a mySQL database. Hopefully, I won't have to go shopping for an alternative.
MySQL is open source as is VirtualBox OSE. Both are released under the GPL. They should be safe but commercial support of MySQL is in question as are binary releases of VirtualBox. Perhaps the open source community can pick up the slack if Oracle chooses to abandon it.
There was an article in WSJ last week discussing this very topic. Oracle is well aware of the vast number of webservers running MySQL. The article speculated that Oracle could bury it or abandon it. They can’t bury it because of the GPL. Either option would piss off a lot of people but as we know, Oracle doesn’t care about that.
Also questionable is OpenSolaris which is Sun’s open sourced version of the Solaris Unix OS.
As far as Java, there are other Java compilers. Blackdown JDK and Jikes come to mind. Kaffe is open source. There are lots of other JDK and JREs. If Oracle plays hardball and starts to charge for Sun Java, there are other alternatives.
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