So this may be old new to some of you, but I just read on the internets that Oracle has purchased Sun, which owns MySQL (which Oracle plans to axe).

I am a bit outraged. Doesn't this violate anti-trust?

    Ok, so I don't have any proof they plan to axe it, but why are ex-MySQL founders and core developers flocking to OurDelta, Drizzle and MariaDB then? From what I read, MariaDB is simply a replica of MySQL with a different default storage engine and are working on a transactional MyISAM engine to get around InnoDB rights.

    Just makes me worry that my beloved database engine with wither and die.

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