The Save MySQL petition is now closed.

We want to first extend a big thanks to all the 50,000+ people that participated in this effort.

Thanks to the Save MySQL email campaign and this petition we got some public promises from Oracle and even got Russia to require firm commitments from Oracle, which will at least ensure that some version of MySQL will be available as Open Source for the next 4 years.

In the end the European union approved of Oracle getting Sun and MySQL, without requiring any commitments. The decision can be found here.

The fight is however not over yet. At least EU, Russia, Australia will keep a close eye on Oracle for the next 4-5 years. If Oracle doesn't eep a close eye on Oracle for the next 4-5 years. If Oracle doesn't honor their commitments or if there is a notable decrease of competition in the database field they may still act. There may also be an appeal for the current decision in EU as there is many open questions about how the decision was reached and also the fact that the final decision doesn't answer many of the questions raised in the original statement of objection. If needed, we will make the petition data available to any regulators that requests it.

Now it's however time to wait and see what will happen. We at Monty Program Ab will continue to work on MariaDB, an extended drop in replacement of MySQL that will be guaranteed free for all future. We just released our first stable release and we are now working on the next release. We also offer support, training and consulting for MariaDB or MySQL, if you would happen to need it.

Thanks for all the help!

Michael Widenius
Creator of MySQL & MariaDB