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Oracle has delivered on promises to add enterprise-MySQL feature worthy, but some solution providers said the company had done little to maintain the MySQL ecosystem partners since acquiring technology in January 2010.
Many open source developers that supports MySQL practice re-evaluated the position when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems Corp.–and, later, MySQL. They are worried is that Oracle will be neutral innovation of proprietary database. While open source developers say that fear has largely unfounded, they also said Oracle could do more to support partners to build applications for the MySQL platform.
"There is still a great opportunity for Oracle to engage partners in the MySQL ecosystem," said Paul Vallée, Executive Chairman and founder of the Pythian Group Inc., database and application infrastructure management company based in Ottawa, Canada. Pythian, which is the Sun and Oracle Platinum partner prior to the acquisition, continues to see many customer enthusiasm for the MySQL platform.
Raj Thukral, senior consultant, MySQL applications said Pythian has matured beyond their traditional role in the Centre of the Web and e-commerce sites to distributed solutions that demand a lot of processing power. Many companies use MySQL has more than one database platform in place, he said.