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If the open source community was so keen to MySQL, despite the not-so-clear / not-so-honest licensing scheme (it is not a mystery I don't like MySQL licensing policy, I blogged about this a few times), the Oracle acquisition might be a blow to this. One of the options is that fork will happen, but they'll be tied to the original (confused) license.

The other options is that open source developers will put their eyes into other open source databases, maybe those with less restrictive licences (Firebird come to mind, but I'm biased here). This might also be a good opportunity for other low-cost high-performance ISAM-oriented databases (I'm thinking of Advantage Database Server, again being biased) to promote themselves as a MySQL alternative in an area (LAMP development) that looked like there was no alternative to MySQL.

Fuente: Blog de Marco Cantù