Según Jonathan Schwartz, presidente y CEO de Sun,

… Sun is putting a billion dollars behind the «M» in LAMP, increasing our already-strong commitment to open source communities, to deliver a more powerful Web application development platform. And we assure you, MySQL will remain just as open, fast, free, easy-to-use and innovative as you’ve always seen. And much more.

Por difícil que parezca, parece que Sun sigue con la tendencia de apoyar el código abierto. El tiempo dirá…