That Sun bought MySQL is old news but that Sun will split it into two products “MySQL community” and “MySQL Enterprise” is less known. Now it turns out that many features in MySQL Enterprise will not be in the community version. The extensions will not even be open source. Sun revealed this at the MySQL Partner meeting as part of the MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA.

Enterprise will have online backup features that will not appear in the community edition. So the ‘few’ paying customers of the Enterprise edition will be running code that is virtually untested at large. I think this may very well be the end of MySQL. Time for the MySQL-fanboys to switch to PostgresQL. Goodbye MySQL. Or would some renegade group fork it and continue without Sun? Let’s wait and see…

Update: The strong reactions made Sun backoff already. More features will be in the community edition. However the license that will be used is still not decided. If Sun doesn’t open it up MySQL will die where it stands. RIP.

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