A look at the MySQL forks

Simply put, nothing other than mysql.com is ever going to be called MySQL (trademark and all that) and it doesn't really matter much. Forks are free to take a different path under a different brand and they already have including Drizzle endorsed by Sun. I suspect some of them will just live their own life like many forks such as Emacs and XEmacs have. I see no reason for doom and gloom. In fact, I like the new environment of many experiments.

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