By Lindsay Clark
Publication Date: 2026-01-23 13:33:00
Developers in the MySQL community are working together to challenge Oracle to improve transparency and engagement around the popular open source database while considering other options, including forking the code.
At a meeting in San Francisco earlier this month, a group of interested members of the MySQL community met to discuss current concerns about the handling of the system on which many companies and careers had been built.
Recent job losses in Oracle’s MySQL core development team – the founding developer of the database Michael “Monty” Widenius said he was “heartbroken” when I heard the news – and a dramatic one decreasing number of commits This has led some to believe that the project has reached a critical crossroads.
Vadim Tkachenko previously worked for MySQL AB, the Swedish company that developed the database, before it was purchased by Sun Microsystems, which later merged with Oracle. Now CTO at…
