Well the topic seems worrying lots of people, specially the open source lovers. But there were some rumors lots of people talk about is "End of MySQL". When sun micro systems brought mysql people say that's the rebirth for MySQL and afterward, oracle brought sun microsystems. Now people say as since oracle wants to promote their database, they need to demote the popular competitors. Which means MySQL is one of the major competitor for oracle, because its free and more people uses it.

In my opinion it's a false statement because Oracle is a very very powerful database tools which provides the higher level features to manage data ware house and data mining. In technical terms it's called as OLAP (Online analytical processing). In the other hand, we have mysql which is like a traditional database system(relational model) and its still improving its features. Main different is that, mysql database was mainly used for web based applications and php applications where php have direct methods to access mysql database. But oracle is mainly used for enterprise applications and there is no way that these two DBMS can compete each other based on the current use. Another think that i notice is that ofter oracle brought sun microsystems oracle have implemented the database machine.

The database machine means is a computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network (definition is taken from wikipedia)

The world's first OLTP database machine is produced by oracle. Means it contains powerful server machine(Sun servers). please refer this link for more details about oracle server (http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/database-machine-069034.html). In my view, this is why oracle brought sun microsystem. They need the world's best server technology to run the world's powerful DBMS. and now they have combined them both and produce the first machine. Now this is the beginning and in coming years we can expect more innovations from this combined force.  So that's my conclusion. Oracle brought sun microsystems to improve and produce powerful solutions. They didn't brought to demote MySQL. that means

MYSQL NEVER DIES

BEST(sun) with the BEST(oracle) produces the BEST