The MySQL Band Reforms As SkySQL

The founders of the original MySQL, the open-source database, are getting back together in a merger between Monty Program and SkySQL.

The merger will provide a stronger rival to MySQL, so reassuring users who are worried about Oracle’s future plans for the database. The acquisition of MySQL by Oracle was greeted with suspicion and suggestions that Oracle would weaken MySQL in favour of Oracle’s own database, and Widenius at one point suggested Oracle should sell off MySQL.