So will this mean the utter neutering of MySQL development...

or its sale to someplace where it might re-establish its development on the database playing field?

I think it is time to look into PostgreSQL and Drizzle.

that's not a bad idea, but as far as Wikipedia knows, there isn't a windows version of Drizzle available. this could eventually be a problem for some users.

dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=570502

The other article is a press release from Sun, and this one is a story on theregister.co.uk.

Not a dupe, though I'd suggest reading this then going over to the other for discussion.