as closely as a tick on a dog's neck. I doubted very much that it would work out well. I thought Sun would have been better off with IBM. In the end, it was a mixed bag.Sun's hardware portfolio is no longer available, but Java continues to contribute significantly to Oracle's bottom line. However, the rest of Sun's open source portfolio has slowly declined under Oracle's leadership, and now, its most important program, MySQL, appears to be on its way down and out.
Oh, and performance, at the end of the day, the be-all and end-all of all database management systems ? It's falling behind not only MySQL's rivals, such as PostgreSQL and the MySQL open source fork MariaDB, but when it comes to the bread and butter of simple single-thread workloads, it's not performing as well as 2021's MySQL 5.6.
He's not wrong. Besides MariaDB picking up MySQL customers, PostgreSQL has closed the adoption gap with MySQL, according to DB-Engines. Indeed, by the StackOverflow Developer Survey count, PostgreSQL is already the most popular open source relational database.Let's face it. Back in the day, MySQL was a way for Oracle to engage with small-medium businesses . These days, many companies want their DBMSs on the cloud, and that's where Heatwave comes in. MySQL? Not so much.
Still other programs, such as the PC-based virtualization program, VirtualBox, live on, but the latter is no longer completely open source. The main program is still licensed under the GPL v3. The very useful VirtualBox Extension Pack, which includes USB device support, Remote Desktop Protocol support, and disk image encryption is no longer open.MySQL should become shared responsibility