Zack Urlocker, MySQL’s vice president of marketing, has announced that the company has renewed its relationship with Oracle for the InnoDB storage engine:

After several months of back and forth negotiation, MySQL and Oracle have agreed to a multi-year extension to the existing contract enabling MySQL to continue to sell and support the InnoDB storage engine. The terms of the agreement are very much “business as usual” for both companies.

Oracle acquired InnoDb along with InnoBase last year. Followed this acquisition, I had the feelings that Oracle will do something bad. They did not and that’s a real good thing© He also mentions Ken Jacobs as the key person to help drive this agreement from Oracle’s side.

I do not know him but I think it was not an easy job.

On the same topic, I’m looking forward to see what will come up in the next MySql UC about the choices of transactions engines. One of them could be Jim Starkey’s Netfrastructure (interbase/firebird), acquired by MySql earlier this year.

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