A veteran MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle could inadvertently kill the open-source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems.
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Peter Zaitsev, who worked as a performance engineer at MySQL Inc before the database was bought by Oracle, has published a blog post critical of Big Red's commitment to one of the most popular open source databases.
The Russian software engineer and entrepreneur literally helped write the book on high-performance MySQL, and he has previously defended Oracle's stewardship of the open-source database. But in his latest post, he said Oracle's moves in recent years to market its analytics system Heatwave was one of the reasons he began to question the company's motives.
Oracle was invited by The Register to provide a response.
