Oracle kills low-priced MySQL support
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 02 November 2010
Oracle has hiked up the price of MySQL, killing low-priced support options and more than doubling what it charges for the commercial versions of the database.
The hike, which was anticipated, gives power to skeptics who'd questioned Oracle's motives for buying MySQL and who continue to fear for the future of MySQL.
SkySQL was formed in June, and it's composed entirely of former MySQL employees.
"We can go back and say to Oracle customers: you trusted us before, it's the same support and consulting team and experts in your field - why not trust us," Sandberg said.
I just hope that Oracle will crash from all that crap it's pulling off. It just bought Sun to get the patents which it will use in lawsuits to make money, and for the codebase, axing off the community that build it. The positive thing is that, like with LibreOffice, a fork can be started, draining users away from Oracle. Sure, Oracle too has branches it is sitting on, but at the same time it is sawing them off and will hopefully break its neck after falling down.