Should we say "Goodbye MySQL"?

Well the question is more or less a remark not a real question.
Oracle buys SUN. That makes everything clear. When the same phrase contained IBM instead of Oracle I did not had any issues. But now ...
It does not make much sense for Oracle to keep MySQL in it's stack. That is very clear for everybody.
What has this to do with the publishing area? It has a lot.
When you say publishing you say information and storage and architecture and presentation.
For most part of the modern publishing that means at least partially: databases.
Except for the OS and the programing language, the database is one of the core technologies you use when you do web publishing or you present yourself to the world using the web.
To be fair I'm not as disturbed as you might think. I use MySQL a lot but ... but it is by no means the only database I use (the other is Postgres).
In the end this might even be helpful for the publishing area as a whole. Who knows. May be XML will gain some momentum because the easiest way to avoid using it for most programmers was to use MySQL. Now they might face an interesting situation: they have a number of choices and XML has it's advantages.