MySQL founder and developer Monty Widenius announced on his blog that the MySQL relational database management system would no longer be a free software project and will instead be under an Open Core model. Widenius pointed to an Oracle announcement last week, which detailed new commercial extensions for MySQL Enterprise Edition.
MySQL AB, the open source software company that created MySQL, was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was then acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010. Clearly Widenius is not pleased with Oracle’s decision. “This is inconsistent to the original MySQL business model,” Widenius says. “The main strength of MySQL has always been that all MySQL source code was freely available,” Widenius says, adding, “It was thanks to this that MySQL got widely adopted and got to be used by tens of millions of users.”
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