Basically - their formerly GPL proxy for doing HA deployments is suddenly not open source.
They can of course make this decision - it's their code to do with as they wish. But it's quite fucking rich for Monty to claim Oracle will close source MySQL, create a fork and company which then uses that fear to grow in popularity, only to do the very thing he accused oracle of doing: closing an open source product.
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Also, if you think only "enterprise" customers need database clusters that survive individual node's being offline, you're in for a big shock.
Basically - their formerly GPL proxy for doing HA deployments is suddenly not open source.
They can of course make this decision - it's their code to do with as they wish. But it's quite fucking rich for Monty to claim Oracle will close source MySQL, create a fork and company which then uses that fear to grow in popularity, only to do the very thing he accused oracle of doing: closing an open source product.
Edit:
Also, if you think only "enterprise" customers need database clusters that survive individual node's being offline, you're in for a big shock.