Oracle did not buy mysql
Sun microsystems bought mysql for $1billion. Oracle then bought Sun and acquired all of Sun's assets, including mysql.
They will kill mysql just like they have done with Solaris, SPARC and java.
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For a moment there, I thought I knew you....
When I first joined Sun in '87 the sales database in the local offices was Ingres. During a demonstration of how to run a task on a remote machine via the new "on" command, the office became noticeable busier with increasingly raised voices.
Upon asking what the issue was, it transpired that the Ingres database had disappeared, cue some detective work. It appeared that "on" mounted the whole directory containing the programme being run on the remote machine under /tmp. Read /write too..by anyone.
At the remote site, fed up with people putting files in /tmp, a colleague had a cron job that periodically scanned /tmp and removed extraneous files (and directories).
Hindsight is a wonderful gift.